As time goes on, I'm increasingly conscious of the "addiction" that the Internet and social media has over so many people's lives. And it really is an addiction — one that's starting to frustrate and annoy me in terms of my own behaviour.
I was editing some videos earlier, and I found myself painfully aware that any time I had to wait for more than two or three seconds for something to process or load, I found myself reaching for my phone or opening Chrome to do the old doomscroll cycle around the only three websites that exist on the Internet any more.
And it irritates the hell out of me, because I'm sure I'm someone who used to have focus. Indeed, when engaged in the right activity, I am someone who has focus. But it just drives me nuts when I have moments like this, when I effectively can't "sit still".
I don't need information overload. I don't need to see if anyone has said anything vaguely interesting in the last minute. I don't need to do anything while my audio and video tracks are syncing up, because it takes less than a minute for them to do so and if I just concentrated on one thing at a time I would probably get a whole lot more done a lot more quickly.
Still, you know what they say — the first step is admitting you have a problem. Then the difficult part is training yourself out of that mindset.
Perhaps we'd all be best off back in the days of 16-bit computers that didn't do multitasking!
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