I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year
This is as good a place and thread as any to write out some questions that have been bothering me. Maybe HN can help out.<p>I've seen over the past several years several such posts (leaving facebook, leaving the internet, etc.) and they have a very raw emotional appeal to me. Some sort of a fast or a ritual quality to the entire idea.<p>Do others here constantly wonder about their internet habits? I may be generalizing, but being uncomfortable or suspicious of gradual habits we develop, does that show characteristics of "getting old" and "conservative"? The get-off-my-lawn type of mentality?<p>The same argument extends to smartphones, and "new fangled" tools such as twitter/foursquare/etc. Do others also perceive some <i>tension</i> in embracing a new lifestyle.<p>Or am I overthinking it, and it is just a general equilibrium-maintaining feedback mechanism we develop through life. Because, with the internet (especially reddit and HN) and ubiquitous access to email/information through the smartphone I find myself, for the first time, cautious about embracing new technologies in a way I never felt before (not even when I got my first computer, or the first time I had cable TV ... of course, I was a kid back then).<p>/end rant