How to Actually Stop Wasting Time On The Internet

Have you wasted any time online today?

I can give you an idea of how much time I wasted just this morning:

• I spent 20 minutes reading comments about Love is Blind on Reddit (which is awesome, by the way).
• I spent 10 minutes stalking the Love is Blind people on Instagram to see if they’re really that crazy
• I spent 15 minutes flipping through TikTok (while eating breakfast, so I guess this isn’t so bad).

45 minutes, totally gone. And that was just this morning.

Why do we spend so much time online? We should be studying, writing papers, studying for the BOC exam, or whatever — but instead, we’re on Reddit. Or scrolling through Twitter with glazed eyes. Even reading about productivity can be a waste of time. I mean, who wants to waste more time than they have to?

Sure, I’m not perfect. I still procrastinate. However, that 45 minutes I wasted this morning was followed by more than a few hours of solid work — and these techniques helped.

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