My ideas for making the internet less addictive

Number 1: Make everything black and white. That'll be much more boring and much less exciting.

Number 2: Don't count anything. Don't tell me how many views my blog has had, how many friends I have, how many emails I have. Because I will ALWAYS want to know, want to count, want to measure. Instead have three categories: More/Same/Less. I'll still want to try to make it say "More", ...but I'm sure with my shortened attention span I'll tire of it quickly.

Number 3: Switch it off periodically. This may not work because I may just stubbornly try to reconnect for an hour or two, but I'm hoping it might actually make me rely on it less. And I mean switch off the whole interweb. What can be that important?

Number 4: Don't update anything for a year.

Number 5: Don't let me personalise anything.

Hm... sounds like a newspaper. And you can always turn THAT into a hat. So... ignore everything I just wrote.

 

Lingering

I linger online
And the longer I linger
The less I live

Begone

Oh begone all things that would distract

From the task which lies before me now

Begone all hunger, for the promised snack

Would be gone before it is devoured

Begone all thirst, for I need not drink

In order to grant me room to think

Begone all sights! Begone all thoughts!

Which would have me shift from my firm course.

Begone the day! Begone the night!

Begone this very poem I write.