Dave Pires

There are certain stages in my life when I’m forced to spend more time away from the Internet than usual. Often it’s just a couple of days, or maybe a week, and a few times a year it’s longer than that.

Regardless of how much time I’m spending on the computer, I get the recurring feeling that the pace of most stuff on the Internet is simply too fast for my heart. I think I do a good job of managing it effectively, but that doesn’t make managing it any less impossible.

I don’t find the amount of information overwhelming (more of problem with print media) but I do find its pace infinitely demanding. Keeping up with the constant flood of cool stuff is tough. I could ignore most of it, and I recognize that I don’t miss what I don’t know about, but I also have to ask myself what I am poorer without.

I’m often forced to consider at what point looking through all the cool stuff becomes a chore, and what the stuff I’m spending time with is really worth. Even the stuff that I’m certain I would be poorer without comes at me with such relentless speed that I simply can’t keep up unless I spend time with it every single day.

At what point does the Internet start taking away from the richness of your life? How much of your life is best spent enriching yourself through the Internet? Where is that fine line? How do you find that balance which is different for every person? I’m still looking for answers, but the one thing I do know is that something as amazing as the Internet should never become a chore.

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