Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ... by wonderwonder on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:40AM (#14087101)

I think it is actually your first point regarding reading news articles and books that people are trying to avoid. People become addicted to constantly looking up things to distract themselves instead of paying attention to what is going on around them.

If you take public transportation, look around, everyone is looking at their phones and no one is interacting with the real people around them.

We have become a society lost in their digital devices.

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Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ... by sigi45 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:52PM (#14091797)

I look around, i'm not a very focused reader but i don't think a train is in any way a useful way of meeting people or communicating much.

I don't value shallow talk with strangers very much. Or have you been on a subway and was discussion with someone strange daily politics?

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Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ... by rudimental on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:35PM (#14092686)

People report being happier after talking to strangers on public transit. They also underestimate how open other passengers are to it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/opinion/sunday/hello-stra...

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Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ... by jpttsn on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:03AM (#14106057)

Sea turtles live long. That doesn't mean lying on a beach all my life is right for me.

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Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ... by jpttsn on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:28AM (#14088089)

The people and things going on around me are not interesting.

Selecting for proximity means wasting my life on random noise.

An $800 phone is a bargain if It lets me spend my limited time on good stuff.

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Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ... by hfsktr on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:51AM (#14087712)

I had taken the public bus for years and I don't recall people interacting before smart phones were popular. Maybe it's different on a subway or in different cities.

I found the worst people around me with phones are the older ones. The teenagers put it down but the older people seem to think that a text will expire if they don't respond immediately, regardless of what they are doing at the time.

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