@shane COMPUTERS AS RISKY TIME-CONSUMPTION

I long realised and even left computing for this exact reason you mention Shane- although we feel it differently "lots of wasted of time" I think can sound very familiar to all of us (which includes not having better to do or like being stagnant or un-individualistic) but it's more that repetition of the same things that we knew we were doing and installing forthe 1000th time...

Above that reasoning more importantly was / is *not* incrementing or improving the human contact and our practises. Still the industrial era.

So when staring at windows or waiting for more, increasingly unfulfiled or just plain downloading infinite amounts- realised that mix was bad.

I went and tried for personal contact / real enrichment more often in everything rather than installing and trying to figure out stuff in an almost brute-force way with time dumps pretending it's learning and not just buying and installing more stuff or playing / fiddling with something ultimately undid itself or makers changed later.

A lot of middle + / - here but at the end feels like playing the same PlayStation game and without much reward unless you magically chose the right path and somehow you fit in industry or helping people (hopefully)....

At the end you might feel sick and full of regret for not doing something better with the time or for getting sucked in (again) realising how many hours past - but worst is you knew it too over and over.
This reminded me of the Playstation and how that's similar though I don't underestimate or give less credit to some good part of early computer - but there was a big price to pay and even if not a lot was out there in the world I 'could' have done more or just installed Window less...

I think that's a good point to end it. Comment welcome.

Readers with their own experience might find this is the most reliable source of information as it's always a personal thing.

I wonder- do you feel you are sucked in and have that feeling of 'oh no not this loop again'....?