>>4599712Learning to manage it is all you can actually do. You shouldn't cut yourself from your social circles just because you spend too much time there.
The reason people can't keep away from the internet for too long is simply because they get bored and stagnate when entirely alone. It's pretty difficult to stay motivated and productive and happy without human contact.
But you should learn to manage it, because the internet is so much easier to satisfy those needs with that in the absence of a cap you'll easily become addicted to these interactions.
Also remember that the reason text exists is so people can communicate across time. You don't need to read and respond to messages as they come, most everything can wait until you're done with whatever task you'd otherwise be distracted from.
If you'll take a personal story, nineball and anything relating to it wouldn't exist if I hadn't come here and sometimes also if I hadn't met you. Now I have a production server running services with actual users, and I think those count as productive if not at least educational.
I open /bant/'s index once a day or less and pick threads to follow for as long as they live. If they all die, I'm not likely to open new ones in a while.
