> he was scared of stopping playing video games and surfing the Internet For me it depends on the utility I get out of games. Minecraft is like Lego 2.0 and pl

> he was scared of stopping playing video games and surfing the Internet For me it depends on the utility I get out of games. Minecraft is like Lego 2.0 and players often share custom maps they've built so there's a community there too. Minecraft is also hackable and I've seen many videos on Youtube of people creating exceptionally creative things with it. It's not just a time-sink: people derive pleasure out of sharing their creativity with the world - something difficult to do with Lego or board-games. As for surfing the Internet: well yes the Internet can be an endless rabbithole if you let it. I've stopped treating it as a rabbithole though, and casually glance at the Hackernews frontpage in the morning, see what tools / services / products I can leverage going forward, then close the tab, after bookmarking a link or two which I will revisit later when I'm feeling creative. Same for Reddit, Twitter etc You can either scroll mindfully or scroll mindlessly. It's your choice.