| | Xanga is neglected. I use facebook. For what? To see what everyone is up to and to waste time. Speaking of wasting time, about a month ago I decided that I spend too much time surfing the Internet and reading the newspaper and that I should stop. I decided that for the rest of the semester I wouldn't read the newspaper (except to glance at the front page) or use the Internet except to check my email, do school-related activities like research, and business (bills, etc). Instead I (mostly) used that time for studying.
The results: it was good, I discovered that I had a lot of time to do stuff, that I didn't need to spend so much time on the Internet.
Now this semester is over, and guess what? I'm back here on this here Internet thing wasting my life. Enough is enough.
In high school, our English teacher told us to "Read, read, read". "Read everything you can get your hands on." It's good advice; it's good to know what is going on the world. However, this was before the Internet was really popular. You can read almost all the articles in a newspaper in about an hour and a half as long as you don't read the ads or the classifieds. This a managable amount of information. It is impossible to read every thing on the Internet. So you have to set limits.
Information. There's a lot of it. You can't know it all and even if you did, most of it is pretty boring anyway (or completely inaccurate).
That's my spiel for today.
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| | Posted 5/9/2009 4:40 PM - 8 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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