Does PC distract you from important offline tasks?

Started by Nihilego November 17th, 2012 3:32 AM
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Treecko

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Age 31
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Seen November 30th, 2021
Posted November 29th, 2021
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11.2 Years
YES! This happens often. PC tends distracts me from doing things I need to get done and also stalls me from going to bed early. I keep wanting to post in more and more topics or reply to a few VMs. And then I end up putting things off.In fact it's after 6am here as typing and I haven't gotten any sleep yet. XD
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Hikamaru

Age 30
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Posted September 4th, 2018
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12.2 Years
Yes, whenever I'm replying to a topic or a VM I'm almost always late for work, or even forget about my food.

Sometimes it makes me sleep too late.
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antemortem

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Age 24
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Seen June 15th, 2022
Posted June 14th, 2022
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11.3 Years
I often spend too much time on a lot of places, PC and other forums being one of them. If I have some sort of assignment I need to work on, I tend to give the forum 'another five minutes' and that five minutes turns into ten, and that turns into thirty, then an hour... and I end up doing the assignment the next morning. :I
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CJBlazer

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Posted January 8th, 2015
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11.5 Years
Well, I personally don't get distracted easily.

If I need to do something in real life, I simply tell whoever I am talking to that I need to go or close out any forums that I have to work on the project.


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Zeffy

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Seen December 1st, 2022
Posted January 30th, 2021
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14.1 Years
PC is just one of the oh-so-many distractions that prevents me from doing important things. I'm not really easily distracted but lately I easily forget that I have to do something important due to doing something else important. Ugh priorities.

Cosmotone8

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Seen July 22nd, 2016
Posted March 20th, 2013
1,758 posts
11.4 Years
Yes but I make the choice to distract myself. I can't continuously work for very long periods of time so I like to take short breaks and I often spend that time browsing PC, Facebook and Twitter.
This. Except I'll mess around on my iPad or go edit my fantasy football lineup or something. :)
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Posted August 5th, 2020
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Yes it does but, I think it's less PC distracting me and more me LETTING it distract me. I'm a major procrastinator (I even procrastinate on sleeping) and so I think I use PC as an excuse not to do my homework or something. "Oh I want to post in all these threads" or "Oh I'm having an awesome conversation with this person" but the most often excuse is "Oh I'll get off at 9...oh wait it's 9:13? I'll just get off at 9:30..." >_<
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Synerjee

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Seen May 28th, 2016
Posted February 25th, 2016
2,901 posts
10.6 Years
Yes, it does! Ever since I signed up for PC, this wonderful place has become one of the reasons I switch on my laptop every day. I get distracted from my priorities very easily. PC is included in these distractions and one of the reasons I procrastinate, coming in very closely to my first-place distraction which is YouTube.

Shining Raichu

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Age 32
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Seen October 17th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2017
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12.3 Years
It used to, a long time ago. Now I've managed to strike a good balance, I think, and I can be active here as well as in my offline life.
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Kura

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Seen August 30th, 2021
Posted August 24th, 2021
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18.7 Years
Yeah.. from tidying lol..

But it also kills boredom if I need to take a train journey or something so.. it's not too bad
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alisaie

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Seen March 14th, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2022
13,598 posts
14.8 Years
Sadly, yes. I wish it wasn't the case but PC and a few other sites often keep me from doing offline tasks. I've gotten a little better but not my much.

Squirrel

Age 28
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Posted July 10th, 2021
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11.7 Years
It does to a degree. I'm good at getting work/projects done before coming onto PC so that's no issue at all for me, but PC does tend to make me stay up till 2-3AM when I have 9AM lectures the next day so that has a toll on everything else when I'm shattered and can't be bothered to do work haha. So the effect is indirect, but it is there.

Sammi

Age 33
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Posted November 8th, 2021
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18.3 Years
Not any more than the Internet in general. But oh boy, do I use the Internet as a distraction tool. Like right now, I should be doing NaNoWriMo, but I am busy posting here instead. When I'm done here I probably still won't be writing. (:

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Bounsweet

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Seen September 17th, 2018
Posted October 11th, 2017
2,102 posts
15.6 Years
Just homework :p

I've never actually skipped work or school to stay on PC though, that's pretty insane. I have posted on PC from my laptop in class though, but with some of my professors you need to do something so you aren't lectured to death... x_x