I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.
I don't really pay attention to much online.
I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.
I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.
I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.
I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.
The Internet is a big distraction.
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.
Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.
Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.
I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
If I did have social media, I would spend way to much time on it. It is way too addictive for me.
Like anyone else, I can fall into these massive Instagram holes and start comparing myself to other people.
