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There’s a big difference between what you can accomplish with an hour here and an hour there vs contiguous, high quality focused time. I suspect that the averag
by christophilus 8y ago
There’s a big difference between what you can accomplish with an hour here and an hour there vs contiguous, high quality focused time. I suspect that the average user’s Facebook time is of the former, low quality kind.
- SeanBoocock 8y agoThis is a great point and too seldom raised when comparisons like this are made. I only have so much capacity for highly focused engagement in a given day, and even within those periods there is variability to my focus. That Facebook, or any other activity, occupies time that I am less engaged is not an indictment of those activities or the choice to spend that time in a less deliberate way; its just how most people work. A better criticism in my mind would be to weigh Facebook and its value against actual competitors for people’s attention in those time periods.
- gaius 8y agowhat you can accomplish with an hour here and an hour there vs contiguous, high quality focused time Yes and no. Swap your FB time for MOOC time and I bet you can do a lot of worthwhile study in bite-size chunks. Or reading books or... anything really.