I just read an article someone wrote called 404: The Internet You Tried to Remember Still Exists, and surprise surprise it talks about the old internet. It talks about things similar to what Where have all the websites gone? talks about.

But what made me want to mention it here is that it also talks about a phenomenon I've noticed in myself recently - just sort of absent mindedly opening the web browser, and opening a specific site or two. It's not really intentional, just force of habit. And that reflex bothers me. I recently blocked Facebook from my computer and phone while on my home network, as well as deleted the Facebook app off my phone, to try to limit my own time spent on it. And still, a week or so later, I still instinctively open my web browser when I get on my computer and start typing, or press the bookmark for, Facebook. A few times I find myself going "Huh, it's weird this is taking so long to load". And it's just... I don't know, feels so unhealthy.

Author John Green has spoken before about how, in his book The Anthropocene Reviewed, he thought about writing a piece on boredom that started with "Boredom was", since in modern day it feels like boredom doesn't exist anymore. And, again, it's something personally at least that I find myself ever more concerned about - any free moment, I'm taking out my phone to browse on it. Not give any time to just sort of... exist. And it sucks that that's my habit now.