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Internet Troubles
I've been thinking about the ways that I divide my time, because lately it seems like all I have the time to do is work and sleep!
When I was in H.S. I had time for friends, shopping, cleaning, beauty stuff, pretty much everyone? Maybe not enough sleep, but you know how it goes. I spent a lot of time working on my website, but I led a pretty full life I suppose.
So while I seem to actually feel a lot better lately...I feel like I am still stuck in a rut.
There's too many fun distractions online, pinterest...tumblr...facebook. Too much getting sucked into the internet on stuff that doesn't really matter.
I can easily waste hours just reading things I didn't care about five minutes ago and would likely never care for again!
So I'm not sure what to do here but it does give me some hope to think about all this. See...there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to work, do school, and have time for my fam. I just need to start hacking out the internet like the dandelion that it is.
Something about social networking is really starting to irritate me. Does nobody talk anymore? Do we create?
Used to be, that if you were online you would have to create your own website. It wasn't a form you filled out that looked like every page every one else had. Sure there were templates, but you had to think of what to include. A lot of people I knew were on LJ back then. We created actual journals...not these silly play-by-play updates. We wrote, and when we weren't on the internet we were not tethered to it in any way.
I'm guilty of this of course, but I'm starting to look at it like a horrible addiction. You do not need to know what I had for breakfast, see what flower I saw by lunch, or know every random thought in my head. But more importantly, I do not need to be suckered into updating it either. I think facebook is like one of those science experiments where you train the mouse to push the button for cheese. Pushing the button more doesn't actually enrich my life. It just makes me fat and miserable.
So I dunno. Maybe I need to really rethink what I am investing time into when I am online, and how much time I am really willing to give up for it. I need to spend more of my day doing things that enrich my actual reality, and break the bad habit of zoning out in front of my computer the way some people zone out in front of a TV.
When I was in H.S. I had time for friends, shopping, cleaning, beauty stuff, pretty much everyone? Maybe not enough sleep, but you know how it goes. I spent a lot of time working on my website, but I led a pretty full life I suppose.
So while I seem to actually feel a lot better lately...I feel like I am still stuck in a rut.
There's too many fun distractions online, pinterest...tumblr...facebook. Too much getting sucked into the internet on stuff that doesn't really matter.
I can easily waste hours just reading things I didn't care about five minutes ago and would likely never care for again!
So I'm not sure what to do here but it does give me some hope to think about all this. See...there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to work, do school, and have time for my fam. I just need to start hacking out the internet like the dandelion that it is.
Something about social networking is really starting to irritate me. Does nobody talk anymore? Do we create?
Used to be, that if you were online you would have to create your own website. It wasn't a form you filled out that looked like every page every one else had. Sure there were templates, but you had to think of what to include. A lot of people I knew were on LJ back then. We created actual journals...not these silly play-by-play updates. We wrote, and when we weren't on the internet we were not tethered to it in any way.
I'm guilty of this of course, but I'm starting to look at it like a horrible addiction. You do not need to know what I had for breakfast, see what flower I saw by lunch, or know every random thought in my head. But more importantly, I do not need to be suckered into updating it either. I think facebook is like one of those science experiments where you train the mouse to push the button for cheese. Pushing the button more doesn't actually enrich my life. It just makes me fat and miserable.
So I dunno. Maybe I need to really rethink what I am investing time into when I am online, and how much time I am really willing to give up for it. I need to spend more of my day doing things that enrich my actual reality, and break the bad habit of zoning out in front of my computer the way some people zone out in front of a TV.
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But props for you for taking charge of your addiction!