Are you a Facebook fanatic? If so, you could be pushing friends away

Brittney Daniels and Debbie Sheetz are two self described Facebook freaks.

“If you don’t have facebook, you’re not cool,“ says Debbie.

“Right now, I’m close to 1400 pictures,“ brags Brittney

That’s right, Brittney has posted nearly 1400 pictures on her Facebook page.

Debbie says, “I just get caught up in stalking.  I don’t know.“

And her friend Debbie has seen them all.

“Most people are facebook stalkers they just won’t admit to it,“ says Debbie.

Debbie thrives off the voyeuristic nature of scouring her friends Facebook updates.

While Britney prefers posting…

And posting a lot.

Some Facebookers and Tweeters call the prolific posting narcicisstic.

Brittney says, “You’re letting others know where you are, what you’re doing, how you look.“

Others call it annoying.

“It’s a little redundant,“ says Facebook user Perrin Walker.

With unwanted consequences.

“We talk on the phone less.  We see each other less,“ says Walker.

Brittney says, “I think it’s a game we all like to play knowing that other people are looking at you and want to know about you.“

But psychologists fear the game is a favorite for people with short attention spans.

“People are so unwilling to have quiet time and sit and meditate and think,“ says psychotherapist Edward Richards.

And as for all those trivial, sometimes useless updates.

Don’t reward bad behavior, Richards advises.

He says, “A way to stop that is to stop commenting on them.“

Bad behavior that at least for some is too fun to quit.

Says Brittney, “Sometimes on one status we could have 30 comments and the whole time we are laughing or cracking up.“