Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
Just speaking for myself, I&#x27;ve noticed that my habit is to eat what is in front of me, and clean my plate. I mean this both literally and figuratively.<p>If I have dessert in the house, like a bag of chocolate, then I eat one after dinner. If I don&#x27;t have it in the house, then I just don&#x27;t eat dessert.<p>If I have a social media feed full of content, then I&#x27;ll scroll through all of it until there&#x27;s nothing else that&#x27;s new.<p>So what I&#x27;ve been doing is not entirely quitting Internet stuff, but instead I just massively unsubscribing, unfollowing, and filtering all the feeds. Sort of a Marie Kondo thing. I go through every subreddit I&#x27;m in, every RSS feed, every account I follow on Twitter, and i strongly consider &quot;is this really providing lots of joy and&#x2F;or value?&quot; If not, it gets the chop.<p>I&#x27;ve cut out at least 2&#x2F;3s of the stuff I was following since the peak, and it&#x27;s only going down. Now when I doomscroll it&#x27;s only for a few minutes. I hit the end of new content very very quickly. When that happens I start to look elsewhere. I&#x27;ve been reading a lot more actual books, done more chores, and been more productive overall.<p>As for the things I unfollowed? They clearly had no value because not only do I not miss them, I can barely even remember what they were.