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Most of have been through it andd just as many of us are still doing it, inspite of the fact that we barely get anything from it. We waste so much time on the Internet that it just repels me. I hate wasting time online, although I am guilty of it when I started. Well, I realized it and I changed. I changed and hence I am happy about it since my days are more or less productive. But are you still doing things that nibble on your precious time as those below?
1. Senseless Click-happy Browsing: You just can’t help it, can you? Press Ctrl+ T on firefox and you get another window to endless information, opportunities and tools. The temptation to resist such knowledge could be nothing less than monumental. yet, you will need to resist that temptation. The more you wander away, the more you lose. The more you click on links and continue reading, the more you will do it and there is just no stopping. Don’t browse when you should be working and set-time aside for casual browsing once a while. Perhaps you would like to do it for a while when you take breaks or once you are done with work. No matter how much browsing-bashing I might do, I feel that browsing for information is better than watching TV any day.
2. Internet Messengers: I hate it when I have friends and relatives and anyone else on the Internet messengers trying to talk to me ” just because I am found online”. You see, unlike them, I work online. I run businesses online and I don’t spend 8 hours of my day discussing weather, Michael Jackson’s death, Britney Spears’ make-up and all other things under the sun. I don’t want to say hello online and I don’t want to hear your rant about how lousy your job is. I thinkk you shouldn’t be listening too. You should make time on any random weekend and spend time chatting and that’s it. Be invisible on messengers if you also have clients meeting you online for chat. Set aside time for them too. They don’t claim ownership on you.
3. Social Media: Do you tweet all day long? twitter is the talk-of-the-net-town today because of the very fact that it allows you rant forever, digitally. That’s why it’s famous. It allows you to yap, yap and yap some more. Nothing ever comes ouut of all that random verboseness constrained within 160 characters. Stop tweeting all day and only tweet when you have something to announce, share, thank, re-tweet someone else’s important informational link, etc. The same goes out to all other social media sites which are bunch of needless, empty and loud congregation places for netizens.
4. Email: You and I know how time consuming email can be. I am not an expert on this one but I loved it when many experts out there suggest that you
- Check email only once before your work for the day begins and once afterwards.
- Check it once mid-day and once after your work.
Point made. Case closed.
