The problem isn’t time spent on these sites, it’s finding better quality ways to spend the time. That’s the real challenge. Solution needs to be pull to something better not push away from something worse. Not that the push is necessarily bad but it’s not the full answer.
I agree with your point about finding better ways to spend time, but I also think that any LESS time spent on facebook and the like is a VERY positive thing. And despite being skeptical when reading the first few sentences of the original post, I think his app actually sounds like it does something valuable.
Couldn't agree more. This was fairly revelatory for me and I've been able to find more productive ways to spend my time recently. I even (shameless plug) wrote about it in a blog post: https://timwhite.digital/distractions
That's awesome! I have a question (we ourselves have been thinking very hard on this) - when you are about to start something distracting, and you catch yourself, how do you find and get yourself into a more productive alternative?
That's actually something we actively think about and have tried a failed solution in the past; we implemented a feature where you can find other productive things to do - the implementation wasn't good and we plan on giving this concept more tries in the coming weeks.
