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echo: fidogazette
to: SEAN DENNIS
from: SIMON GEDDES
date: 2019-09-23 21:26:00
subject: Re: FidoGazette Vol 13 n

At 11:49 PM on 21 Sep 19, Sean Dennis said to Simon Geddes:

-=> Simon Geddes wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 SG> Great! Have you consciously tried to reduce your usage?

SD> Yes and no.  I have a lot of other hobbies, such as amateur radio,
SD> programming, my BBS, writing short fiction, and reading that keep me
SD> offline.  Once I have more room, I'll get back into leatherwork,
SD> woodworking and metalworking as hobbies.

This seems like the best way to go to reduce usage. Squeeze it out with more
interesting things. Based on one of the top stickies on the nosurf reddit, a
lot of people have genuinely forgotten what other things there are to do, other
than use their smart phone/internet. They maintain a list there of top
recommended alternative activities, including the ones you describe. It's kind
of sad, scary and telling that such a list is needed. One complaint you see
there is that people's attention spans are so shot, they struggle to read a
page of a book, ordraw a picture or whatever. 

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