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Re:Economists study what happens when people stop using Face... by icebraining on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:46AM (#22464340)
Yeah, but your current judgment of what would have been better is tainted by the fact that you spent a lot of time on IRC, so can you really trust it?
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Re:Economists study what happens when people stop using Face... by mlang23 on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:03AM (#22464483)
Oh yeah, I can trust my assesment that real life contacts (lets call it a network) would have been more useful in the long run. I "wasted" about 10 years of my life spending time in front of a computer, as a sort of escape from the fact that I am an outsider by trade. I would have benefited a lot more if I tried to break that habit much much earlier.
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