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Not going to list them here but I suggest you go and do some research of the side effects and risks from actual medical research not HN users. For me it ended in a few days in hospital.
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Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
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Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#272Just speaking for myself, I've noticed that my habit is to eat what is in front of me, and clean my plate. I mean this both literally and figuratively. If I have dessert in the house, like a bag of chocolate, then I eat one after dinner. If I don't have it in the house, then I just don't eat dessert. If I have a social media feed full of content, then I'll scroll through all of it until there's nothing else that's ne…
In weight watchers (yes, weight watchers), we classified certain foods as "red flag foods"; these were foods that we _knew_ we could not control ourselves around. The kind of food where you have one, and then suddenly you've finished the bag/box.
I tend to agree with you: if it's there, you're going to go for it. We all have things like this. "Cleaning your plate" is a good metaphor, but I'm betting you don't "clean your plate" when it comes to exercise or other things that may be less enjoyable.
Identify the things in your life that are red flags, and consciously keep them out of your life. It's hard at first, but soon, you don't even miss them.
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#273Just speaking for myself, I've noticed that my habit is to eat what is in front of me, and clean my plate. I mean this both literally and figuratively. If I have dessert in the house, like a bag of chocolate, then I eat one after dinner. If I don't have it in the house, then I just don't eat dessert. If I have a social media feed full of content, then I'll scroll through all of it until there's nothing else that's ne…
So many threads on HN are basically "What does neurodiversity look like?"
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#274Because large companies have built the most popular places on the internet to intentionally be addictive (but call it engagement instead).
Their massive wealth relies on converting engagement into ad spend.
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#275Broader questions for the author:
- Is entertainment a waste of time?
- What's "too much" when we talking about entertainment consumption? Where is the limit?
- Do you consider YouTube/Instagram a form of entertainment? If not, why not?
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#276Just speaking for myself, I've noticed that my habit is to eat what is in front of me, and clean my plate. I mean this both literally and figuratively. If I have dessert in the house, like a bag of chocolate, then I eat one after dinner. If I don't have it in the house, then I just don't eat dessert. If I have a social media feed full of content, then I'll scroll through all of it until there's nothing else that's ne…
I think a corollary to this is the relatively modern idea that life needs purpose in the form of measurable accomplishments.
Looking back at how most people lived their lives, it was sustenance, interspersed with things like family, religion, and friendship (if you were lucky). Nearly nobody owned much, nearly nobody 'did cool things,' nearly nobody was famous.
They all just had a part of life (surviving) that they knew was bad and hard work, then they tried as hard as they could to escape that briefly.
Now, we expect work to be fulfilling and non-work to be fulfilling. For the majority of people where that isn't true, it feels really depressing, which is compounded by the fact that society pushes you to spend more time on improving the work side of things (which again for most people will not be intrinsically fulfilling no matter how hard they try), so they end up feeling lonely and sad.
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#277The why is easy. I mean, you basically have infinite entertainment and information at your fingertips. And it's all tailored to your interests. This is unprecedented. I don't think anything comes remotely close in human history.
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#278Right now it's because I don't want to go and do the thing that makes me sad to even think about. Sometimes it's because I am frustrated with the thing I'm supposed to be doing. Well, now I will go make food and tell myself I will do the sad thing afterwards.
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#279Just speaking for myself, I've noticed that my habit is to eat what is in front of me, and clean my plate. I mean this both literally and figuratively. If I have dessert in the house, like a bag of chocolate, then I eat one after dinner. If I don't have it in the house, then I just don't eat dessert. If I have a social media feed full of content, then I'll scroll through all of it until there's nothing else that's ne…
There was a study with a soup bowl that would automatically refill, and found people ate a lot more than they would if just given a regular soup bowl.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15761167/
It strikes me the Internet is now a bottomless soup bowl of content, and we have know indicators to tell us when we should stop.
Re: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
#280I had to reach a point where I admitted to myself that, as much as I may wish I were a person who could handle having a smartphone in my pocket, I'm not. If I have one there, it will suck up time I don't want to give it. I tried putting all kinds of guides in place until I just...got a flip phone that, yeah, can run Android apps, but absolutely sucks to use. It doesn't have a touch screen, so I have to navigate with…
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