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user-inactivated  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The internet is wasting our lives.

Right as usual. OP, if the internet

    doesn't make me happier, it doesn't get any of my schoolwork done, it doesn't each me anything, and it doesn't facilitate any social interaction
then you're using it wrong. It does all four of those things at varying times for me, and so does being offline.




ike  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you read more carefully, you would have noticed that I wasn't referring to the internet when I said that. I was referring to

    the time I spend consuming internet- and video-game-based entertainment.
I'm well aware that there are innumerable productive uses for the internet and that it is an invaluable and inexhaustible resource for improvement of myself and society. I'm complaining about the time I waste on the parts of the internet that aren't worth my time.
user-inactivated  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, if "internet-entertainment" doesn't make you happy, why do you still do it? Habit?

ike  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why does anyone ever regret their time management? People are lazy. They do easy things.

user-inactivated  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't regret my time "on the internet." I regret my time wasted "on the internet." If you can learn to separate those out, you're golden.

ike  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree!