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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Monday August 19 2019, @12:58PM
When I was in HS I would date girls who would read that kind of "female pr0n". And frankly that gave me a pretty big dating pool and the girls knew it attracted guys, aside from romance novels inherently having pr0nographic value for women. Two genre of books would get me to hit on a girl if she was reading in the high school library, hard sci fi and hard core pr0n "romance" novels.
It didn't actually work that well; I remember seeing a girl reading one of the Foundation series novels and I practically asked her to marry me as a pick up line; we dated for awhile but turns out we had nothing in common other than liking the Foundation series, unfortunately. Looking at the books she's reading is an interesting pick up strategy, none the less. Or maybe the fact its an effective strategy to get dates means it does work well; I donno.
Its pretty hot to ask her for her favorite chapter in her romance novel, then pass the book back and forth in class while reading some crazy "50 shades of gray" type of stuff. They call them "romance" novels but half of those books are sex scenes so I donno about that. I admit they have more plot than the typical pr0n video, but not much more.
Its a bit of a double standard because these girls would carry their pr0n novels around and show them off and discuss with each other the finer points of their novels, but guys were not allowed to read penthouse letters or look at magazine centerfolds during class. And note the girl-pr0n books usually had a nearly naked weight lifter guy as the cover photo so the content was pretty obvious.
Basically the above is just a long rant that like every other form of technology ever invented, pr0n sells the tech pretty well and always has sold well. I really wouldn't advise claiming people don't read because there's not enough written pr0n stories or whatever. That stuff is actually wildly popular, at least among women, and guys who like to pick up women.