Why the internet is addictive. And I am an internet addict. My thoughts.

[progree]

2. I'm a candidate for Internet Addict designation

Half of it at least is because it's an interesting distraction from important tasks that I don't want to do and keep putting off. What I try to do is carve out a block of time each day to be Internet free (unless it is necessary to doing some important task that needs to be done, and then of course use the Internet ONLY for doing that task during that block of time). So far I'm doing a poor job of it, but not a 100% failure -- I'm just spending maybe 1/4 of the very modest amount of time I've set as my goal on the important things.

And my house is a cluttered mess (one of the important tasks is to fix that, but basically over the last 3 or 4 years I've only succeeded in keeping it from getting worse. Before that, it was a couple of decades of slow but steady decline).