> I'd be interested to hear everyone's strategies to combat this For me, it's all about latency: I try to introduce a barrier for being able to access typical

> I'd be interested to hear everyone's strategies to combat this For me, it's all about latency: I try to introduce a barrier for being able to access typical time-wasting sites. If there was a way on OS X to reduce browsing certain websites to pre-broadband speeds, I'd be all on that. > For personal things, I deleted Facebook and feel quite a bit better. I did this too. So glad, don't miss it at all, and actually feel like I talk to my friends more now as a result. I'm still on the fence about contributing to a community like HN (anyone looking at my profile will see a big gap of about a year). It's a nice community with useful discussions, but I'm not sure it positives outweigh the negatives for me (distraction). I also try to get my news via newsletter now, e.g. I get the top HN articles emailed to me rather than checking the website manually. That way I get to stay up-to-date without that 'slot machine' effect of just refreshing the front page when I'm taking a break. Overall, I strongly believe the Internet is addictive. I'm glad it exists. It's enriched my life in many ways. But the addictiveness is certainly real, and it's something I'm trying to actively address in myself.