Addicted to Information
“Hi, my name is Melissa, and I’m addicted to information.”
“Hiiiiiiiiiiii, Melissa.“
What is the first thing I do in the morning? Check my Gmail. What do I do after I blow-dry my hair but before I get dressed? Check my Google Reader. What do I do while I’m eating breakfast? Chat on instant messenger, browse Facebook, and review the Google Analytics data from the day before. What do I do ALL DAY LONG? Read Twitter.
RSS feeds feed my addiction. (No pun intended. Okay, intended.) But at the same time, they also quench it. Using a feed reader keeps a steady stream of information flowing in, so when I check in to see what’s new, I’m never disappointed.
The problem is, I have trouble tearing myself away at the end of the night. I literally lose sleep over this. Not that I sleep much to begin with, but when I load Google Reader right before bed, it’s literally like opening up Pandora’s Box.
It starts with, Oh, I’ll just have a quick click around. You know, see if any of my absolutely-must-reads have been updated yet.
Open a link here, open a link there.
But open tabs lead to more open tabs. Which inevitably lead to even more open tabs.
And then suddenly, I start to suffer from The Curse of the Never-Ending Open Tabs.
If the internet is a portal through which I explore the world, then a tabbed browser is like a black hole. Or a vortex. Either way, once I go in, I never seem to come out on the other side.
On that note, I’m consciously choosing to ignore the 27 tabs I currently have open in my browser and am going to bed instead.
Night night.
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Seriously, it's a problem.
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I have this exact same issue. Couldn't have explained it better myself. I'm worried I'm going to wear my little MacBook out before its time because I'm always leaving 'er running over night - so I don't lose all those interesting tabs I've accumulated with those articles that I "really should read".
One solution is to have an unsympathetic friend over to use your computer who will thoughtlessly nix them all in the interest of having less clutter, despite your cries of dismay when they tell you what they've done.
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That's why I love the new feature in FF3 that allows saving open tabs when closing the browser...
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Put your computer to sleep at the end of the night. When it wakes up all your tabs will be there.
Does anyone else ever have tabs that sit around for weeks? New Yorker articles that are 7 pages long and you just don't ever have the patience for them?
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