The ....."INTERNET' is ...."ADDICTIVE"

[usonian]

1. It all depends on "which internet" you use.

I keep fairly occupied with two news aggregators, DU, which I heavily filter for trolls and doom peddlers, and Hacker News. We all know about DU. It lets us share insights and encourage others (cuz nobody else is going to) and have some chuckles (the way I use it) and Hacker News is very heavily techie, and heavily moderated for trolls and sales pitches. But being a techie and infovore, I either share a pertinent article link here or save it as pdf for later review. There are over 200 new posts a day, but some, like details of massive hacks, or exciting developments in open source software have big relevance for me. I ad-block everything like crazy.

I avoid entirely the clickbait “trap you” sites, DESIGNED to be addictive via positive feedback on your likes (the echo chamber effect).

I decide what to read, and what to respond to.

My future strategy aims to install web-based software so that my “curiosity” web browsing time can turn immediately to productive work. Such software would be notebooks, kanban boards and lists.