no more mindless surfing
1 week ago
unless it is school related…am off the internet for good…until my gpa rises to 3.2
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How to get off the internet
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 "I decided the real goal should be "find new activities to do besides going on the Internet," because its easier to commit to a positive action."
How I did it: I had signed up for the daily reminder "Get off the Internet," but every time I turned on my computer and saw that in my email, I felt angry and rebellious, so it had the OPPOSITE effect of making me want to stay on the Internet. (Even though it was me telling myself what to do.) I decided a better goal should be a positive one, I should find new activities to replace the constant Internet use. I realized I turned to the 'net because I was lonely, and I was lonely because I wasn't making an effort to see people. That was the feeling behind my "internet addiction." I decided to work on my friendships. I looked in the paper for free things to do and began asking folks to go do them with me. Lessons & tips: Frame your goal in positive way, instead of saying "I will stop going on the Internet night and day" say "I will make conversation with one new co-worker a day." Resources: The daily Email Reminder actually made me realize I felt angry being told to "get off the Internet!", so
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How I did it: Easy. I just called my dsl provider and canceled it. I was off for about 5 months but had to get the internet all over again for school. Plus I was completely out of the loop when it came to current events. Read how I did it…
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1 month ago
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.
Maybe a better idea is to set a positive goal
1 month ago
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,”
Limit internet use
2 months ago
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.
miamaliciouss is doing art and craft.
Untitled
3 months ago
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
Live
9 months ago
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.
Get off the internet!
10 months ago
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.
dev0tchka Is that all there is?
I'm a cheeky geek.
10 months ago
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.
Untitled
11 months ago
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.
