Yes, I am an internet addict. I spend more than 15 hours on net daily. Well, my job forces me for 9 hours or so but the rest is all me. I spend most of the time watching online TV series one after the other. I recently finished with Flash forward. It was an awesome series, but the ABC channel didn't renew it for the second season. It was hardly one day after I finished with two seasons of V ( an alien invasion based TV series ), which was fine but with an ending so abrupt and odd that it left me thirsty for more suspense thriller type series', I started with CSI:Miami today, although I wanted to start off with the original CSI, but couldn't find the online episodes for it, well at least for my region.
It is not that I didn't try anything else. I thought to myself - what else can I do? Nothing stood apart by the Cost-Benefit analysis, so I am stuck with the TV series option. The effect of internet has been such that I have been wanting to learn cryptography, martial arts, spying, swimming, and what not, all at the same time. Seeing the amazing lives of the FBI, CIA, NSA agents, I am just eager to feel the same. I even searched for Internet Addiction on Google and Wikipedia, and found out that the only remedies that exist are Self-Control and Psychiatric help. Being an inherent lazy person, I don't find any reason to move from my seat when clearly internet is able to provide me with almost every human emotion possible.
I noted down few possible ways of curbing my internet use:
1. Internet timer - Keeping a clock right beside me to track the time of internet usage
2. Load the necessary pages all in one go and them switch off the router, disconnect the cable and sit somewhere else - far away from the source of the internet
3. Involve in learning something that doesn't require sitting in front of a computer (ex: guitar, keyboard, singing, martial arts, yoga, photography)
4. Go out very often to smell fresh breeze of air and feel that you are an alive human being
Though right now, I am not taking any drastic steps, but I believe this blog will help me more in curbing or at least directing my internet habits to productive directions.
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