The Experiment
Jul. 15th, 2004 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edgAs of tonight, when I go to bed, I'm cutting myself off from most of the Internet.
I will still check email, and I will still be on IM services (Y!, MSN, ICQ, and AIM). But I will not be using the web at all - including LiveJournal - and I will not be on any chat programs except the IM services. (Greg, this does mean that I'll be missing your chat, and I apologize. If it makes you feel better, I would have missed it anyway. :/) I'll make a friends-only post immediately after this with my email address and phone number (in case anyone needs to get in touch really quickly); my IM stuff is in my userinfo.
This will last for one week. On Thursday night of next week, I'll examine the results and see what happens next.
The brief explanation for this is that I'm taking my life back. I discovered the Internet more than ten years ago, and everything else - everything that I loved: writing, reading, drawing, singing, video games, interpersonal interaction - fell to the wayside.
Seriously, here's an example: I used to love video games before the Internet. Now? I've finished two in the last decade.
I want my life, my attention, and my dedication and focus back. So I'm cutting out my primary mind-killer.
See y'all on the flip side.
I will still check email, and I will still be on IM services (Y!, MSN, ICQ, and AIM). But I will not be using the web at all - including LiveJournal - and I will not be on any chat programs except the IM services. (Greg, this does mean that I'll be missing your chat, and I apologize. If it makes you feel better, I would have missed it anyway. :/) I'll make a friends-only post immediately after this with my email address and phone number (in case anyone needs to get in touch really quickly); my IM stuff is in my userinfo.
This will last for one week. On Thursday night of next week, I'll examine the results and see what happens next.
The brief explanation for this is that I'm taking my life back. I discovered the Internet more than ten years ago, and everything else - everything that I loved: writing, reading, drawing, singing, video games, interpersonal interaction - fell to the wayside.
Seriously, here's an example: I used to love video games before the Internet. Now? I've finished two in the last decade.
I want my life, my attention, and my dedication and focus back. So I'm cutting out my primary mind-killer.
See y'all on the flip side.
