Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by riekus on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:08PM (#31288678)

This is me so bad. I have it in the good and bad ways.

In the good I will run couple marathons a month and in the bad I will eat whatever I can find.

I always felt like an outcast, good to hear I am not alone :)

For media consumption it is exactly the same. The good is that I get to the nitty gritty of technical problems. But I also read the unless crap till no end.

I have been able to ditch Twitter, reddit, Facebook and Instagram but I just substitute it with hackernews and YouTube.

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Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by xkbarkar on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:40PM (#31288941)

Haha. Same here. I have gotten back into reading though. That took a while because I lost the ability to concentrate on books as I grew more dependent on streaming and social media. Its been about a year now, since I left all the major social media hubs, got incredibly selective on daily news (only one local media outlet and a couple of polar opposite international ones that I pay for) and cut down on watching streaming services, that I started to be able to concentrate on reading books again. I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on. I missed it terribly.

HN and youtube still stick. Mostly tutorials, workouts or info videos ( Andrew Huberman, justforfunc, 3blue1brown etc. ) on youtube though.

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Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by riekus on Saturday May 07, 2022 @05:13AM (#31293145)

Same, but with books and audiobooks I just misuse them in the same way, feels like consumption addiction, even though, like you, it is all in the selfhelp / tutorial / learning space.

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