My experience (mostly involving sites like StackExchange) is that if I disallow the thing in setting A but not setting B then I mysteriously find myself using the thing a lot more in setting B. I get similar substitution effects around e.g. if I disallow addictive site X but not similar addictive site Y then I mysteriously find myself visiting Y a lot more.
My experience (mostly involving sites like StackExchange) is that if I disallow the thing in setting A but not setting B then I mysteriously find myself using the thing a lot more in setting B. I get similar substitution effects around e.g. if I disallow addictive site X but not similar addictive site Y then I mysteriously find myself visiting Y a lot more.
On the other hand this seems to be a useful strategy to slowly upgrade the value of your leisure time, e.g. facebook ⇒ netflix ⇒ reddit ⇒ lesswrong.
I think Facebook if used properly can be a lot more valuable than Netflix and plausibly more valuable than Reddit, but yeah.
I think Facebook used properly is probably about as valuable as Reddit used properly.