["It will only take a minute"puts me on a slippery slope toward procrastination. ]
IT'S APPROACHING MIDNIGHT and Ari still hasn't started to work on his report, even though he sat down at his computer at 7 p. m. When he got to his desk earlier that evening, his intention had been to get to work, but he thought, "I'll just update my Facebook status-it will only take a minute."Now, hours later, he's still there.
Issue
I have included this short chapter because Internet-based technologies and other forms of technologically mediated communication, like smartphones, have created a whole new world of time wasting. There is little doubt that our best tools for productivity-computer technologies-are potentially also one of our greatest time wasters. In fact, the title of this chapter was taken from one of the published papers from our research group. In this paper, published more than a decade ago (long before social-networking tools became popular) , our participants reported that 47percent of the their time online was spent procrastinating. I think this is a conservative estimate.
I doubt that I have to write very much to convince you that the Internet has the potential to waste time if you want it to. People I know bemoan this fact all the time. The best example I have in relation to this chapter is a reply to one of my Psychology Today blog posts. In response to the"it will only take a minute"theme, an anonymous reader wrote:
Im procrastinating……that's why Im here……i just google things Im thinking about, like this……or like I hear someone hum a familiar tune, so I look up the song to know who sang it……I mean that LITERALLY takes a minute, but then that makes me google a couple other things and then it ends up lasting a lot more than a few minutes……and I honestly dont realize when I end up reading the wikipedia page of some random disease that some singer had that was related to the singer I was looking up. wait, why was I looking him up? oh right, cos someone at my schoo
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