Come on we’ve all thought it.

How with one little click you could stop the endless tide of baby photos and inane videos of people falling over that you just HAVE to watch instead of doing your work, homework, or that thing called engaging in a real social life.

Crouch End resident Lolly Jones has tackled the very real issue of social media dependency in her show I’m Thinking of Leaving Facebook, which also looks at the wider influence of social media and asks: “Is it acceptable to ‘check in’ at a funeral? Does food taste better if Instagrammed first?”

“I was inspired by the number of people writing ‘I’m Thinking of Leaving Facebook’ on their Facebook walls without any intention of following through with it,” says the comedienne behind viral sensation Charlie Brooker Ruined my Life and writer of the Lolly does London blog.

“It scares me how social media has replaced natural intimacy and conversation. It has become acceptable to no longer send a birthday card to close friends and family. Pregnancies are now announced with a JPeg of ‘the scan’. Humanity is being diluted.”

The 32-year-old, originally from the Midlands, graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama five years ago and since then has worked as an actress and writer, but also has dressed up as a giant toilet for Water Aid, served canapes to Ronnie Corbett and pulled pints for MPs in Parliament – a job that provides the backdrop to the show.

Lolly say her aim with the production, which she performed at Edinburgh and has now brought to London, was to strike the balance between ‘normality’ and the psychotic draw of the online world: “How to carve out an identity in a world of personality quizzes and competitive statuses?”

Lolly even left Facebook herself for two weeks earlier this year and says: “ I went on holiday without ‘checking-in’, I ate meals without photographing them first and I smiled with my teeth, instead of an emoticon.”

But she was lured back to promote the show’s transfer to Islington: “I had to sell seats. The most effective way was to update my status daily! This is not just ironic, this is ‘hashtag meta’, this is the internet folding in on itself.

“And today, I wrote I’m Thinking of Leaving Facebook on my wall with absolutely no intention whatsoever of following through on that promise.”

Kings Head Theatre, Upper Street, Islington, until October 25. Details: 020 7478 0160, kingsheadtheatre.com