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Some people consider web surfing an Internet treat and not a horrid, greasy bug eating your time with knife and fork. I just spent yesterday off-line and feel particularly virtuous right now.
THREE THINGS THAT WILL DAMPEN YOUR WEB SURFING
1. Clear your cookies at night.
2. Erase your history.
3. Pick a day of the week to shut off the computer.
"Can't do it."
"Impossible."
"Why?"
From my review of Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: "Neither luddite nor scold, Carr reasons calmly that our technologies are changing us to better adapt to their nature."
Cell phones, surely, are fine.
I reviewed Tomas Kersting's book Disconnected where he noted that excessive screen time erodes focus, increases anxiety, and leads to social retardation.
Yesterday, I read a book old school style, sitting in a chair holding a physical object, giving my eyes and my focus time away from staring at a screen. (This after five weeks of publishing ebooks and paperbacks where I did nothing but lock eyes on a screen for hours each day.) It felt delightful.
I also recommend viewing a documentary called The Social Dilemma, in which web pioneers explain how their good intentions and technological developments led to web consumer becoming the product.
Experiment at limiting your on-line time, if so inclined. Let me know the results.
