get off the internet

i use to be addicted to the internet. i couldn’t seem to tear myself away. but lately i haven’t had it and i rediscovered reading. people say that there is a lot of good information available on the internet and if that is true it is hard to access. using google i can never seem to find much. also i don’t really like the anonymous friends. its not real.

its way to easy to just sit and stare at the screen. you reinforce yourself by clicking from thing to thing. i find it boring.

Instead “get off the internet”, maybe a better goal is “lift weights”, or “go for a walk before work,” something positive.It’s hard to stick to a negative goal.”I will not….”

I’m going to replace my “Get off the Internet” goal with “find new activities,”

If I limited my time spent on the internet, I could accomplish all my other “want to do” tasks.

There is a point of diminishing returns, where being on the internet starts to detract from my enjoyment of life, rather than enhancing it.

I am addicted to the internet. I probably spend around 8 hours a day, just on the net.

I use it to contact all my friends, write down lists, get music, watch movies and television, work out (thankyou Sparkpeople)

pretty much everything.

I’m starting a full time job in 3 weeks
and hopefully moving out of home in 3 months.

so I think I need to go on internet detox, since at the moment I’ve got a 100mbps connection with 400gb of download. And when I move out that will fall down to none.

:S

Whenever I’m indecisive about something, I look it up on the internet. This usually leads to WAY too much information, which only makes me more indecisive. This continues in a never-ending cycle, and I end up on the internet for hours. The whole thing ends up being very stressful and I end up doing nothing. Then I get angry at myself for wasting all this time on the internet.

I think I just need to realize that while the internet has lots of information (some true, some not), it can’t tell me how to live my life.

That being said, the internet is a very useful tool. I just think I need to stop using it as an excuse not to live my life.

I definitely spend too much time on here. But it’s not like I don’t have a life. But when I get home, I come on the internet, and end up staying on until 11. Then I don’t get enough sleep. Ahhh.

No, I think this ain’t gonna happen. I’m on a holiday now and I really don’t know any other way to spend my days (I know I could read or go out or cook or clean or just hang out (but I won’t)). When I’ll get back to school I’ll probably stop this and do something else. Hopefully. I hate you, Internet, please die.

I’ll meet you in the street.

As an IT Consultant I pretty in much in front of a computer all the time, be it mine or someone else’s. I use the internet all the time at work, however when I get home I seem to be on the internet all the time as well. I can’t help being on it during the day, but i will try to minimize it by doing other jobs, but when i get home my personal phone pushes e-mails out so I have no need for the internet.

So in terms of facebook
1)I stopped all notifications by e-mail, because on average I was e-mailed up to 10 time a day, and I had to go on and see whatever it was.
2)Use RSS feeds + live bookmarks to my favorite blogs, I would know if they had written something, instead of having to check that website like 5 times in a day.
3)consider useless websites i go to.. digg is great but BBC News takes up less time because the content doesn’t change all the time.

I really want to stop using the internet so much, as it just uses up so much of my time. Bebo and Myspace are the big ones and I’m thinking about deleting them, but they’re useful tools for keeping in touch with people, so I don’t know… I do know that the internet is wasting my time though.