Internet is toxic

redditloginfail · 2019-02-06T18:27:17+00:00

I guess Op won't read this, being disconnected and all, but this is a conversation worth having.

Seems like EVERYTHING in life can get so radically unbalanced these days. Abundance is driving us insane.

Greed and gross materialism gets portrayed as "ambition", laziness as victimhood, etc.

I frequently try to take a step back and examine my habits and behaviors from an outside perspective. Like, what value is this thing REALLY adding to my very limited existence? It's tough to do objectively. We're all just slaves to our brain chemical reactions in a sense.

NiceIce · 2019-02-06T19:14:12+00:00

The internet is a tool, like any other. A knife can be used to cut your top serloin, or you could use it to stab your cheating girlfriend. You need to drink water to live, but too much will kill you.

Exercise restraint, and just be sensible. That's part of growing up.

raft_lost_at_sea · 2019-02-06T19:24:21+00:00

This is extremely important. I took a four week break from non-productive use of the internet and accomplished a lot.

Have set a strategy where I binge social media for four days a month (on day three of this month.) Then I stop.

It was mostly this video that convinced me to do so (it's over >1.5hrs long):

Sam Vaknin: the TRUE toxicity of social media revealed

The reason for this, is I noticed people at work cannot concentrate. I was wondering how someone that has zero commitments, lots of time and no side business could be performing so much less at work than I did. Then I realized if I could concentrate and get into that deep focus, I'd become unstoppable.

TLDR; limit your social media usage. Set a schedule on the calendar. There's a whole nother emotional aspect that I'm not going to cover.

Mindraker · 2019-02-06T20:20:47+00:00

I'm disconnecting..

You'll be back.

potatorockstar · 2019-02-06T19:04:26+00:00

good point

Leben_ · 2019-02-06T19:26:32+00:00

Too much of anything can have a negative outcome. Moderate it and have self control. Switch it off and read, exercise or do other things.

I basically cut out all social media things that involve similarities to facebook and twitter platforms. I like the internet for learning, listening to new views and other things.

BumKnickle · 2019-02-06T21:56:28+00:00

well ultimately the purpose of life is to enjoy yourself, there is no point otherwise, if you get your jollies on the internet then that is fair enough.

"time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted"

FlourishedCass · 2019-02-06T23:36:53+00:00

I find I need to have an internet 'purge' every half-year or so.

Complete wipe of PC, phone, any other tech. Close any inactive accounts and make new accounts for stuff I still use. I've been on Reddit for about 5 years now and I've got pretty popular with a few accounts, even making it onto the front page. I find I amass a lot of subreddits though so I'll make an account and try to cut my subs down to only ~15 that are useful and that I enjoy.

Come to think of it, I'm due a new account..

J_Milton_Jr · 2019-02-07T09:09:01+00:00

Society tells us that these are all normal things

I would always be careful with the statement "society wants .." Often it is not the society that wants certain things (who is "the society", you, me, my colleagues, my neighbors ... all individuals who are not a bit interested in me), but companies that want to sell certain things
All these things are normal, normal does not necessarily mean good but for most people the internet, alcohol, video games for everyday life and for quite some time ... as it used to be normal that candles used as a light source. What is normal and what is not, changes with the habitat in which we live, which man changes.
Basically, you are right imo, that one should not waste ones life with unimportant activities ( on the other hand, if playing an hour a day video makes you happy and relaxed, why stop doing it? It becomes dangerous only when an activity takes so much time that you can no longer optimally meet your everyday life ), every human being has only one life that one should enjoy as much as possible. Always to renounce everything lowers the quality of life as well as to exaggerate everything, a certain measure should be the optimum (which is also the most difficult, which is why many people choose the "completely or not" method)

Black-White Thinking is, in my opinion, generally dangerous and not conducive to further development, no matter in which area, be it healthywise, politically, economically or what not

Frumpagumpus · 2019-02-08T19:25:10+00:00

try disabling images from rendering by default in your browser. you can have a whitelist of websites that you allow to display images.

also you could try rss feed e.g. elfeed in emacs, if you want to take it to the next level

Title	Internet is toxic
Author	Endzone19
Upvotes	1
Comments	12
Date	February 6, 2019 5:18 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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