[blurb]

You go to check your email or print out homework assignments, and then you end up spending way too much time on the computer.

The best thing for me to do is to just not log on to my computer at all (or throw my computer away), but then again, I also need it. I feel like it is a huge time-sucker, and it's already having a negative effect on my life.

Any of you face this problem? How do you go about fixing it?

I'm going to see if I can go a week without it. Hopefully, I'll see you guys in a week. This seems to be the only way.

[Gmac]

(09-07-2011 01:47 AM)blurb Wrote:  

You go to check your email or print out homework assignments, and then you end up spending way too much time on the computer.

The best thing for me to do is to just not log on to my computer at all (or throw my computer away), but then again, I also need it. I feel like it is a huge time-sucker, and it's already having a negative effect on my life.

Any of you face this problem? How do you go about fixing it?

I'm going to see if I can go a week without it. Hopefully, I'll see you guys in a week. This seems to be the only way.

Set aside a certain amount of time to use the internet and have an alarm go off when that time is up. Being disciplined is the only way to go.

[Pete]

(09-07-2011 07:04 AM)Gmac Wrote:  

(09-07-2011 01:47 AM)blurb Wrote:  

You go to check your email or print out homework assignments, and then you end up spending way too much time on the computer.

The best thing for me to do is to just not log on to my computer at all (or throw my computer away), but then again, I also need it. I feel like it is a huge time-sucker, and it's already having a negative effect on my life.

Any of you face this problem? How do you go about fixing it?

I'm going to see if I can go a week without it. Hopefully, I'll see you guys in a week. This seems to be the only way.

Set aside a certain amount of time to use the internet and have an alarm go off when that time is up. Being disciplined is the only way to go.

It's too hard to find the discipline sometimes.

[megaframe]

Aren't there some kind of programs to monitor internet usage for children? You could look into that, and set it only to allow internet use at certain times of day or for a limited amount of time. If that doesn't work, ask a friend or family member to put a password on there. You could just type in gibberish for the pass, but you never know if you might need to use it in an emergency for class or whatever.

There's always ways around it if your addiction is too much. In that case, either give the computer/modem to someone to keep or throw it out. You either have to learn discipline or force yourself, there's no such thing as an easy way out.

[Samseau]

Quick, let's check the Roosh V forums to end my internet addiction!

[babelfish669]

(09-07-2011 08:21 PM)Samseau Wrote:  

Quick, let's check the Roosh V forums to end my internet addiction!

Seriously though, here are a few tips

-Pay very close attention which sites gobble up the most time, like 45 minutes instead of 5. Don't visit them unless you have lots of free time.

-Avoid timesinks on 1 or 2 specific days of the week. For example, I generally don't read news on weekends.

-Don't browse shit on your smart phone.

I've found specific things are big time wasters. Avoid those things and then you'll use the internet for an hour or two a day to make yourself better, not worse.

[Pilgrim37]

Certainly find it eats time and helps me procrastinate.
Discipline and having more of a life might help,as long as you don't earn your living off a laptop!

[Docter]

delete your Facebook and throw your macbook out the window

problem solved

[haywire]

Put a firewall on all sites except the really useful ones. Ask your friend to set a password and not tell you.

[Ajiaco]

Set aside a couple days a week where you won't look at the internet at all. Plan around those two days. If you know Thursday is going to be internet free, get everything you need done the day before, or put it off til Friday. Make those days untouchable, and make a plan for them that doesn't involve looking at a screen. Make a date, cook a meal, clean your room, read a book, whatever. Make those days sacrosanct.

Put things in perspective. Do you NEED to check your e-mail? When is the last time you got a truly urgent e-mail? It happens maybe a few times a year, and that person can call you if it really is an emergency. For homeworks, just go print them and log off. Keep telling yourself, "Just print the homeworks," until you will feel guilty for doing anything else online. There's no glamorous way to do this. You are going to feel like a loser every time you give in without a good reason. You could also take a week and write down, in list form, everything you do on the internet and then read the results at the end of the week. What can you eliminate? What are you embarrassed to have wasted so much time on?

You know there is a problem. Replace passive internet activity with something vigorous and active whenever possible. Schedule your "internet time" in the morning for an hour or so, and then keep away if you don't need the computer to work.

[bacan]

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Any new thoughts on this problem?

I can get in a rut where I don't leave my bed/room/whatever and just waste hours online reading junk, watching videos, whatever. Obviously this forum can be a huge part of that.

I'm trying to think of a way to really fix this...

How have you guys struggled with wasting too much time and overcome it?

I have closed my facebook, but it sucks being totally disconnected from people, although I don't really miss it that much.

[bacan]

I have also found antisocial and Mac freedom to be helpful..

[Cr33pin]

I spend/waste way to much time on the internets. I will get on in the morning to check mail an such then before I know it its mid afternoon and I haven't done anything worth while with my day or on the internet.

[MikeCF]

Are you actually addicted in the sense that it's ruining your life?

A couple of years ago I went 2 weeks without using the Internet, just to see if I could quit.

I was able to.

Then I realized the Internet is fucking awesome. It's an amazing bastion of information, education, networking, and entertainment.

The Internet makes my life better.

If it's ruining your real life, then take a week off. Go the rain forrest in Costa Rica or somewhere that doesn't have WiFi.

Or else do not have a home computer. Only use your computer at work.

It's easier to quit smoking than to lose weight (and keep it off) because you can go cold turkey with cigarettes. But with fat loss, you gotta eat something. It's far easier to overeat when you have to eat something.

So don't have a computer at home. Period. That'll keep you from binging. Go cold turkey.

[cardguy]

I've had days when I have woke up on a day off and spent all day on the internet. From 8 in the morning until midnight.

I have some pretty bad binges sometimes.

[invictusiii]

Inspired by this post I've decided to avoid social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and the like. I think I may have a problem and need to let my mind recalibrate.