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Do you also use a shitty computer just to protect yourself from addictive video games? I honestly don't get it when people have to do all that stuff to "protec

Do you also use a shitty computer just to protect yourself from addictive video games? I honestly don't get it when people have to do all that stuff to "protect" themselves instead of just... not going on Facebook 15 times a day? I consider myself like an easy target for addictive services but, I don't know, I guess I just have better things to do.

cimmanom 9y ago
Once you develop a habit of doing something, it can be tough to drop the habit without something to interrupt your thought process. For instance, I noticed myself picking up my phone and browsing certain websites (dopamine sources) whenever my thoughts wandered into a topic I find distressing -- instead of confronting those thoughts and thinking them through. For me, Facebook happens not to be addictive, but other sites are (for instance, Quora). I was wasting hours on those sites instead of doing productive things. Setting up a content blocker to make me think twice before visiting them has helped. So has adding an app that I can set to block using my phone for a given period of time, forcing me to put it down and do other things.
nascar_is_bad 9y ago
Is addiction a completely foreign concept to you?
j_s 9y ago
>Do you also use a shitty computer just to protect yourself from addictive video games? I've given serious consideration to limiting myself to mobile versions of the game I'm addicted to, but I can't answer 'yes' yet! I can also vouch for the effectiveness of this strategy based on slow motion Street Fighter 4 on a machine with an integrated graphics card.
birksherty 9y ago
Everyone has better things to do. You are not addicted because you did not use them like they are supposed to. Addiction is built-in in these apps from every possible way. There are lots of information on how they do that. Your comment is like saying, why don't people just stop taking narcotics, there are better things to do.

cimmanom 9y ago

Once you develop a habit of doing something, it can be tough to drop the habit without something to interrupt your thought process. For instance, I noticed myself picking up my phone and browsing certain websites (dopamine sources) whenever my thoughts wandered into a topic I find distressing -- instead of confronting those thoughts and thinking them through. For me, Facebook happens not to be addictive, but other sites are (for instance, Quora). I was wasting hours on those sites instead of doing productive things. Setting up a content blocker to make me think twice before visiting them has helped. So has adding an app that I can set to block using my phone for a given period of time, forcing me to put it down and do other things.

nascar_is_bad 9y ago

Is addiction a completely foreign concept to you?

j_s 9y ago

>Do you also use a shitty computer just to protect yourself from addictive video games? I've given serious consideration to limiting myself to mobile versions of the game I'm addicted to, but I can't answer 'yes' yet! I can also vouch for the effectiveness of this strategy based on slow motion Street Fighter 4 on a machine with an integrated graphics card.

birksherty 9y ago

Everyone has better things to do. You are not addicted because you did not use them like they are supposed to. Addiction is built-in in these apps from every possible way. There are lots of information on how they do that. Your comment is like saying, why don't people just stop taking narcotics, there are better things to do.