In a module called Time Management / Conflict Management we're told to keep notes about our daily routines or the things we spend our time on. Without even beginning to keep track, it's not hard to guess that I spend a good amount of time online, be it for school, work or even my spare time, but especially that part which has nothing to do with work or school has almost become something like a habbit for me:
As soon as I get online, my messengers automatically start, making me available to my contacts. I start Thunderbird, Firefox and the Twitter client Tweetdeck and wait for each program to update. My various inboxes fill up with emails (probably even telling me about new updates or messages on various social media plattforms), the feed reader loads all new pots from my blog roll, and Tweetdeck feeds all the little chunks of 140-character-information uttered by the round about 200 people I am following on Twitter. There might even be some messages on ICQ already demanding my attention. Well, at least the next 30 minutes of my lifetime have inevitably fallen prey to new media and its time consuming facets. And once I actually DO get to the point that all unread items are down to zero, it won't take long until the next few items pop up.
Well, I guess all that is far from being called 'spending quality time', I totally agree. And as a German idiom states: admitting is the first step to improvement, but hey - do I want to improve?! Oh gotta go, just got an email...
Ziek of niet ziek
11 months ago
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