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How Many Extra Books Could You Read If You Quit Social Media?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 19 2019, @03:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the Harrison-Bergeron dept.

canopic jug writes:

Emma Charlton at the World Economic Forum summarizes a report that finds by cutting out three 10-minute social media checks a day you could read as many as 30 more books a year.

"Just a couple of five-minute breaks every hour are hundreds of hours yearly," the Omni Calculator's creators say. "You cut your social media time by half, and you still get plenty of time to read, run or earn money."

It recommends turning off push notifications that appear on your screen, deleting some apps, calling your friends rather than messaging them, and taking short holidays from all social media once in a while.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @08:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @08:18AM (#882031)

    unless u actually read academic stuff =)

    also it is artificial complexity, just like social media.

    it triggers your mind to thik itself having experienced shit, and end up messing up your pesonality into a castle of cards...

    of course, it serves as inspiration.
    on of my favorite books, although a bit shit, is Wheel of time...
    You have to know a bit of psychology and evolution to understand who the antagonists like Elan Morin and Aginor and the eternally laughing Balthamel are, but i almost wept of joy when i saw that others remember the old gods too... Once we were someone else =)

    I have gone on so many mental tangents while reading those books, i would have not understood a sliver of mister Darwins teaching, without them...

    But, for each their own...

    -zug

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 19 2019, @04:02PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 19 2019, @04:02PM (#882183) Journal

    Here are some books [goalkicker.com] that are based on real life social media. If you count Stack Overflow as social media. The plots and character development in these books are amazing.

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