MsBovary

It explains, for example, the policy that

lets Facebook use data to serve you ads on outside sites

That’s news to me. I’m really not OK with Facebook doing this, but then, I don’t use Facebook.

I remember something called a pinch from Ocean’s 11

Pawl

Around 2006-08 I also used to be one who had the 20ish tabs open. Eventually, I realized that if I had anything more than around 6 tabs open, it was indicative of articles and things I either didn’t find the topics of those articles as interesting as I’d want to believe I was, or that they were simply too long to read immediately.

Realizing what I truly find interesting in things whilst ploughing through tens of tabs, helps me quickly get rid of tabs that I simply know I do not want to read as much as I want to believe and deceive myself into thinking it is something I find interesting.

A good analogy is when people have those films in their Netflix queue or DVD’s at home that they just haven’t watched, but they’re things that they’d like to watch…but they never do. And instead, decide to watch Sherlock Holmes or Iron Man, this is how I view those tabs.

If I find something compelling and I know I won’t read it, I have a ‘Read Later’ folder in my bookmarks bar, and over time things accumulate. After a few months, if I still haven’t read a page though I still feel I want to read it, I have a mental reality check and come to the conclusion that I simply do not need it.

As for your daily websites, you simply don’t need all of them. I suppose a good way to realize which ones you value is to think about recent articles or podcasts you’ve listened to, if you can’t think of stuff from certain websites, you simply don’t need them in your life and you may be just reading them out of habit, or simply not reading them at all and just reading the headlines in which case youcan continue to visit the website.

As for Facebook and Twitter and other social networks, I simply am not a member of for the sheer fact that their value to my life is not great enough to justify their usage and my resulting addiction with them.

I feel that the reality is, a lot of people use the internet as a means to fill up spare time.. I certainly do. But I don’t know what I’d do otherwise. Were I the inquiring mind I was a few years ago, my internet usage would be more justified than it is now. There is also a lot of crap on the internet, I feel there’s more than there was 5 years ago, in that the signal/noise ration is much lower than it was. I’m not sure what the point of this paragraph is, just that these were few points I wanted to bring up. how relevant they are is anybody’s guess.

Oh and finally, on the topic of comments, I get around this problem by first judging whether it is even worth reading an articles comments based on what the article is about, and if I feel I would quite like to read comments, I quickly skim within a few seconds the quality of the comments and abandon ship if it is the usual riff-raff Also, I think The Verge commenters suck, may be not as much as some other websites, but suck they do!

thank you!

I am serious, and don’t call me Frankly

oh wow, talk about SWAG!

wait till Dan Brown’s new book is published and all will be revealed.