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What do people think about internet addiction? My mind has fallen apart - now I read comments on ycombinator and reddit, and I cannot even watch a TV show becau
by wydfre 5y ago
What do people think about internet addiction? My mind has fallen apart - now I read comments on ycombinator and reddit, and I cannot even watch a TV show because of how bad my attention is. It's like I have trained myself to consume opinions on articles, without reading the actual articles. It's horrible. I hate internet addiction - and nobody talks about it. People write about odd internet communities - but few people write about television addiction, or internet addiction. I do not even have the capability of sitting down and playing a game because of my mind being so stupid and shallow.
- snarkypepperoni 5y agoI don't have much to add to this, but I relate completely. I can feel myself mentally deteriorating as I repeatedly choose to take the path of least resistance for optimum entertainment, which in turn just leads to increased boredom.
- kart23 5y agoIt's probably because it's harder to draw a line between normal and unhealthy internet usage, and it overall isn't as stigmatized as say, a social media or gaming addiction. You can imagine a very clear stereotype of those people and it's effects. Personally, I'm absolutely ashamed of it, and that's probably why not many people talk about it? Earlier this week, I was working on a personal project and after writing like 5 lines of code, I would instinctively open reddit and see the same posts I had already read. This probably happened like 10 times until I actually thought about what I was doing, and I felt absolutely pathetic, like my brain was just a zombie. It just feels like such a... stupid thing to have problems with.