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[unicornduke]

 It's amazing how much free time I have now that I no longer scroll tumblr.

I'm dead serious. I would normally spend another two hours on there and now I'm bored and looking for things to do. I'm probably going to do dishes, eat dinner, clean a little bit and then play asscreed. 

fucking wild how much of a time sink it is. And also how strong the urge is to go on it. I will literally type in the address without thinking about it. I mean, seven years on there is a good amount of time so understandable. But it really is an unconscious urge to go there and it honestly weirds me out a bit. 

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[dragonlady7]

I go over there a little but yeah, I think I'm with you on this. It's super bad for me! Ugh.
It looks like the only bit of that Tumblr I don't have backed up is the gap from 2012 to mid-2015 when Tumblr was sucking me in before I got a crossposter set up, so. I just gotta figure that out.
Going back in my archives was kind of a trip. Tumblr definitely didn't help my mental health or writing output much at all. Yikes(TM).

[unicornduke]

It is just, such a fucking time sink in a bad way. At least if I watch tv, I end up crocheting because only one thing is too few to concentrate on.

Things I just got done: all the dishes, ate dinner, pulled the two gross stove things out cleaned them and wiped the whole thing down, put up the new shower liner, put away all the clean dishes I'd been making stacks of, cleaned the counter and the sink.

It's only been an hour!

[dragonlady7]

Ha, I haven't been *that* inspired. But I did spend hours today on going through my back-catalogue on Google Docs. I still have absolutely zero memory of writing that abandoned novel from 2011. I went and checked my LJ for entries at that time and there's only two in the whole month and they're about my uncle dying, so that's depressing, so I can see how I wouldn't have really been paying a lot of attention to what I was doing at that point.
How is that seven years ago. I really don't remember it at all though. I know I have to have written it because it's not a shared doc, I wasn't closely corresponding with anyone at that point, and there are a bunch of idiosyncratic features that I know are my writing, but I genuinely don't remember and it's wigging me out.

On the plus side that got me to confirm that yes, all ten years of my Livejournal era are backed up on here, I should probably friendslock them because I was a little shit at 21, and the only years I'm missing are my Tumblr from 2012 to 2015 before i started crossposting.

[unicornduke]

I actually didn't intent to do that much, but I did the dishes and oh well, the stove is dirty and right there, and....

So shit got done. It was nice. And then I played video games the rest of the night.

I find it interesting how many people want to back things up. I know you write a lot so that makes sense but I mostly reblogged things and I don't really care about the things I did post about so I'm just calling the whole thing a loss for me.

[glinda]

*waves hello*

I think the whole 'endless scroll' thing in social media these days is a massive contributor to the time-sink aspect and the addictiveness of it. Just turning off endless scroll on Tumblr reduced my usage massively. Somehow seeing that I was 25 pages back would make me conscious of how long I'd been at it. Freed up loads of time. :S

[unicornduke]

Hello!

I turned off endless scroll years ago because of internet and computer issues, couldn't handle the load. But it was just endless pages! I'd usually hit 45 or 50 before I realized how far I'd gone and that's quite a bit.

I'm tired of it anyway. It was a lot and I wanted to look for more ways to actually talk to people on there, which was hard. I'm hoping to be more active on here especially. We'll see what happens!