Facebook is an addictive and time killing social networking engine that the world has ever witnessed so far.
A friend of mine recently called me up to say a few generous words on how well I am writing the articles (is it so? very generous indeed 
). He works for reputed Software Company and fortunately or we could also say that it is unfortunate that his company allows him to scour the internet without any restriction (no actually there are restrictions but Facebook is not on the list).
The problem is, he spends too much time on Facebook and the worst part is that he realizes it very late. Now our friend is very curious to find how much time he has spent on Facebook. So he asked me if I knew about any software that could help him to track the time spent on Facebook. He had one condition though; he will not be able to install any software on his computer so it has to be portable software.
Track Time Spent on Facebook using ManicTime
Do you ever wanted to know how much time you have wasted on Facebook? Well the simplest and easiest way is to use a Chrome or Firefox extension but if you are on a corporate network we won’t be able to take this route.
Free and portable software called ManicTime could help to track the time you had spent on Facebook or any other website for that matter.
- Manic comes in both installer (5 MB) and portable versions (4.5 MB) so choose one that suits your requirement.
- Let us download the portable version for now.
- Extract the zip file contents.
- Double click the ManicTime.exe file to start the application.
- The first time when you start ManicTime you will be prompted to choose the License type, professional version is free for 15 days, post that you can switch back to free standard version or you can directly start using the standard version itself.
- As you can see from the below screenshot some of the features listed will not be available in the standard free edition.
- Once you have chosen the type of version, ManicTime will start monitoring your activities and it will be available in taskbar.
- ManicTime captures all activities that you perform on your computer and helps you to find where you spend most of your time.
- As you can see from the below screenshot select all instances of Facebook, right click and select filter. Now you can easily track the time spent on Facebook.
- You can also add Tags to identify a group of instances for each application.
- Top Applications and Top Documents under Statistics tab will give you more fine grained details about your system usage.
ManicTime not only helps you to track the time spent on Facebook but also on other applications that you use.
Hey Sri,
I was on a mastermind group session last night and when I asked one of the ladies how she was doing she confessed that she gets easily distracted with all the stuff going on. One of them is Facebook and she finds herself spending too much time there. I told her to shut every single program down and even send her calls to voice-mail while she’s working on something and then open the program she needs to be in at that time only. I might send this post to her but hopefully she won’t need it!
That’s very interesting and I bet if more people actually used this they would be shocked. I wonder if that would help them at all change their time spent on Facebook.
Either way, thanks for this share and have a great weekend.
~Adrienne
Facebook is an addictive time killing machine(website) and many people are not aware of the precious time they spend on it. There are other kinds of people who just sit in front of the system and spend countless hours without doing anything productive. Both kinds of people could leverage ManicTime and see where spend most of their time and try to at-least control it. As you said if people tried this once they would be really shocked to see the results and it is up to them to decide whether the time spent was worth it or not. As you know change has to come within and never can be forced on to someone. This is just a tool that could tell them what they are up to but action has to be taken by the individual. Once again thanks for providing your valuable comment and for sharing this with your circle. Have a wonderful day Adrienne.
Hi Sri Varshan R Y
It means now we won’t be able to deceive ourselves by just opening the Facebook and promptly replying to each query there and apparently we may be doing any other but boring work.
This is really wonderful resources to tell every minute we spent on Facebook and its whole count will really be an eye opener for us or specially for those who say they use Facebook without affecting their regular chores.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful info and have a great weekend.
Hello Mi Muba, welcome to Artic Post. Facebook eats up your time without even you realizing it. Most of the time we just browse through the Facebook wall and end up losing countless hours, I have done it. Hopefully this tool helps people to put a leash on their Facebook Hours and spend more time into something productive. Thanks for dropping by, have a wonderful day.