You know what I'm talking about. You're going to get started on that project when you realize that you have to check your email. Then you decide, oh I'll just check out my friendly neighborhood Teamliquid.

~~Three~~ Many hours of youtube watching the discovery channel and kitten videos later you feel ashamed.
Internet distractions... They're everywhere! How do you beat them?

I don't mean to not spend any time browsing the web, but just to reduce your time online.

paper

13196 Posts

February 25 2010 03:50 GMT

itt instant gratification

micronesia

United States24788 Posts

February 25 2010 03:55 GMT

The internet is just an excuse to procrastinate for you. You can fight this by having plans made ahead of time and making deals with yourself.

Plan to spend 30 minutes fucking around... stuff like that.

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17743 Posts

February 25 2010 03:55 GMT

i dont
i just give up sleep

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21246 Posts

February 25 2010 03:56 GMT

Sleep is optional.

ghostWriter

United States3302 Posts

February 25 2010 03:57 GMT

I am doing this at this very moment.

404.Delirium

United States1190 Posts

February 25 2010 03:58 GMT

It got worse with this whole incognito browsing, too =(

Also, how to beat them: "self control". Something that many people tend to deny existence of for self justification.

DeathByMonkeys

United States742 Posts

February 25 2010 03:58 GMT

On February 25 2010 12:57 ghostWriter wrote:
I am doing this at this very moment.

Same... started with Tetris -> Facebook -> TL

Humbug

United States264 Posts

February 25 2010 04:08 GMT

Yeah I often find my self procrastinating and feeling sooo lazy to the point where I'm visiting the same bookmarks to see if anything has been updated in the past five minutes... a good solution would be to have a different area to do homework in. But if it's work that requires a computer.... ¬¬

Nub4ever

Canada1981 Posts

February 25 2010 04:16 GMT

#10

I have a project due in 2 days and I'm about a quarter done T_T I should be working on it now but I R distracted

Ranix

United States666 Posts

February 25 2010 04:19 GMT

#11

I've been following the beta too much to do work

My key... where is it?

hyst.eric.al

United States2332 Posts

February 25 2010 04:23 GMT

#12

On February 25 2010 12:55 micronesia wrote:
The internet is just an excuse to procrastinate for you. You can fight this by having plans made ahead of time and making deals with yourself.

Plan to spend 30 minutes fucking around... stuff like that.

This is witchcraft and wizardry, believe none of what he says. The myths and legends he alludes to-- "planning things out ahead of time", are just empirically unproven and impossible in their own right.

The internet is your friend.

lu_cid

United States428 Posts

February 25 2010 04:30 GMT

#13

On February 25 2010 12:57 ghostWriter wrote:
I am doing this at this very moment.

Same. I think I was doing quite well with my procrastination until the beta was released. Now I'm back to square one. I just can't keep my mind off SC2.

Of course I don't even have the stupid beta >_<

avilo

United States4100 Posts

February 25 2010 04:47 GMT

#14

On February 25 2010 12:57 ghostWriter wrote:
I am doing this at this very moment.

Sadistx

Zimbabwe5568 Posts

February 25 2010 05:31 GMT

#15

I have a group project due tomorrow and yet I'm reading this terrible blog

United States6173 Posts

February 25 2010 05:50 GMT

#16

I have an essay on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics due at 11am tomorrow and I haven't been to a single lecture on it, or started reading any of the material until tonight...

...and I'm reading this bad blog.

cosiant

Canada616 Posts

February 25 2010 06:02 GMT

#17

What I usually do is mix it, like 30 mins of internet then 30 mins of doing school stuff, and if I play a game for lets say an hour and a half, I do 45 mins of school stuff, if I need to. Works for me...

Saturnize

United States2473 Posts

February 25 2010 06:44 GMT

#18

Do shit at the library.

Omni

United States72 Posts

February 25 2010 06:45 GMT

#19

^ I usually do the same thing as well, although recently I've been slacking off a bit too much -_-.
I blame the three day weekend.

XinRan

United States530 Posts

February 25 2010 06:57 GMT

#20

If you truly want to get things done, I would suggest giving up just for fun sites like Teamliquid and stop using a PC (as in personal compute). I gave up computers entirely except for library computers when I needed it for homework, and then ended up the most productive I've ever been in my life. In the end, though, it was all about self-control. If I wasn't so determined to not waste time, I probably would've just gone to the library everyday and browsed Teamliquid there.