Recorded internet use this month
Hey, I recorded my internet use this month and ran some basic statistics on it. I have been recording my usage since around the start off the year. I use cold turkey weblocker, I used to actually use it's features but recently have disabled it near completely, but I still let it record analytics.
Anyways here's the results:
Total days: 25 Avg in hours: 7.1466666666666665 Standard deviation in minutes: 161.60173266397857
And here's a visual of the graph using cold turkey ( for those of you wondering I had to manually count the time and put it in a text file, then I just used python to compute the results [ you could also just use a calculator obviously ] )
My mental health is pretty odd right now, I've just been using the computer like a crack addict. I play various games switching them, and then after that I watch youtube or twitch TV. I haven't been really getting much work done and ATN my room is a mess. I'm just lacking motivation.
For hobbies I've just been exercising going to the gym 4 days a week, but I stopped doing other hobbies like meditation or piano. I have university, and I've been working on things here and there but I have been doing a poor job since I just lack so much motivation and have honestly been pretty depressed since my mom passed away over this last summer.
I've still been spending times with friends, but stopped going to a gaming club recently as I just wasn't feeling the game anymore I was really just there to see the people. I might go back just to hang out with them. Honestly I am just bored of all video games at this point, but just do them because free dopamine, why not?
I am seeing a counselor at my school in 2 days ( Friday ). Which I should of done a hot minute ago.
Anyways I'm just sharing this if anyone has advice for me, or for anyone else in a similar situation, also the data is kind of cool and it's nice to see exactly how much time I am spending.
Oh and I'm not someone who thinks all this is wasted, for context I am a computer science student so I am bound to spend a lot of time on the computer. 8 hours average on the computer FOR WORK wouldn't be bad, but honestly I would guess like I've worked 2 hours on average a day on work max, the rest is just wasting time on youtube, reddit, twitch ect. Those 6 hours I really should instead be using to socialize especially, rather than staying in my room. Oh and one last things these statistics might not be accurate, I might manually time myself in the future how much I use the computer for work and play, and see, that would be extra cool, but i'm too lazy right now.
Edit:
I thought I should add some other stuff about me, in the past I tried to ween myself off of computers. This didn't work because look at me now. I would set times and limits when I could use the computer but this more or less made me feel like a girbil. IDK I feel like the only way to get something done for me is cold turkey at this point. But honestly with my state of mind right now I don't know if that is a good idea. The computer is holding back in a lot of depression, it's almost like a medication, or well it is.
Posted Mar 27, 2019, 8:20 PM UTC · edited