The way we communicate and socialize has significantly changed as a result of new technology. We are now chatting on Facebook with people we have never met and we share pictures of ourselves with strangers on Instagram.
A person who uses internet as a means of leisure spends at least 100 minutes per day on the internet and that is a really conservative estimate. That doesn't sound like a lot, but total it out over a whole year and you would sit for 25 days straight behind your computer. That is almost a month per year! Now the real question here is: what did we do in the past with all those days we spend now on the internet?
A person who uses internet as a means of leisure spends at least 100 minutes per day on the internet and that is a really conservative estimate. That doesn't sound like a lot, but total it out over a whole year and you would sit for 25 days straight behind your computer. That is almost a month per year! Now the real question here is: what did we do in the past with all those days we spend now on the internet?
Here is some data:
- Almost half of the time we spend on the internet has a negative influence on our productivity, either directly (27% of the time is coming from work) or indirectly (22% is coming from sleep, education and thinking)
- One third of the time we spend on the internet has a negative influence on normal social activities (offline), including travel, going to parties and do other household stuff
- Fortunately we also watch less "traditional television" although this one is hard to measure, perhaps we traded TV in for YouTube and Vimeo.
Please don't misunderstand me I think the internet and social media are great inventions. I use FB both professional and socially. Now here is where it gets serious. It seems that one of the growing reasons why we don't achieve what we want to achieve is because of 'time leakage' to social media. There is a time for everything and if you are truly goal oriented, set limits for yourself when and how often you look at social media. If you study, turn it off completely; if you sleep, turn it off completely; if you socialize (offline), turn it off completely; if you drive a car, turn it off completely; ... I guess you get it by now. BTW, if you think you are not that bad... just ask around or think about what the first thing is you do when you wake up or the last thing you do before you go to bed.... I rest my case.
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