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Which sites do you spend more time on than you should?

Social media is a double-edged sword, meaning it could be both beneficial due to contacts, learning resources and creative ideas you find, promotion possibilities for your businesses, and also a distraction once you lost the track of time and aimlessly browse low-quality content, compare yourself to others and blame yourself for not being productive.

Some of the most common ones for me include Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube. Which sites do you spend more time on than you should?

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Yogi

Notion.so

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Kinanee Samson

Localhost:4200 πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Yogi

Lol I run ng serve often πŸ˜…, It's Angular's default port.

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Madza • Edited

Haha, haven't written a single line of Angular in my life, tbh πŸ˜‰
Angular is by Google, so I wonder did they make some reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when setting that PORT as default? πŸ˜‰
By coincidence, they also have an easter egg - by Googling "answer to life the universe and everything" you get "42" in the calculator πŸ˜€πŸ˜€

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Kinanee Samson • Edited

I know I just thought it was funny coz, m always on port 4200 too

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Madza • Edited

I wonder as well πŸ˜€ Does PORT 4200 is specifically chosen to include The answer to Life, the universe, and everything, or what? 🀣🀣

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Madza • Edited

Notion has always seemed like a job itself to me. On the one hand, it's great to plan and organize everything (good practice), but given its endless opportunities and power, it can take an eternity to explore all its features and find out the organization patterns that work for you. πŸ˜‰
Being more productive with it is questionable, depending on how good you are at using it, so I can see where you are coming from πŸ˜‰

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Gary Bell

Even though I'm not really in to social media, Twitter is eating a good bit of my time. Snippets of information and articles are always fun.

Also, date I say it, Dev.to. I probably spend more time here than I should.

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Madza

What I like about DEV is the amounts of time spent here actually feel like I have learned something valuable, participated in discussions, or created some post myself (which requires research and therefore learning) πŸ˜‰ I see blogging as a crucial part of the learning path, a daily routine almost πŸ˜‰πŸ“š

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Gary Bell

I try and work stuff I learn into blog posts. Makes thinking of content easier.

I'm not posting any more this year, but I have a lot of content being worked on for next year. I'm even planning on cross-posting all/most of it here

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Madza • Edited

Exactly πŸ’― Being active - both reading quality posts and writing well-though-out and researched posts/comments wake up our minds ⏰ The mind is lazy by default and we have to put the effort in to become conscious πŸ˜‰

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GSPTeck • Edited

YouTube is such a bad tool for people that want to be productive!! lol
I will do some coding related research (I prefer articles, so I usually don't look on YouTube) and I might need to watch a YouTube video to get the information I need. Once I open that one useful video, I basically lose control of myself and watch at least five ten minute video which takes away a whole hour away from my day so I just lose motivation and watch more YouTube.

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Jonah Lawrence

You can use an ad blocker to hide related videos. That helps me better control what I watch.

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Madza • Edited

And then, at 2 AM, mighty YouTube algorithm comes into play recommending Top Gear clips from 2002 πŸ˜€
And what do you do? You watch! 🀣🀣🀣

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GSPTeck

exactly 🀣

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Karan Gandhi

Twitter. Few years back the experience was really good. I actually learnt some cool stuff and found some great tutorials.
However, now Twitter is a massive waste of time. Or I am using it wrong or some shit.
It's heavily biased towards their advertisers and their "causes".

Some really authentic tweets from people I follow are left out. Not the case before.
And some random political rant of a person, who I don't even follow, of a country I don't care, is bumped up. Essentially a bot-tweet.

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Madza

I've witnessed similar behavior, too πŸ˜‰ Not using Twitter for that long to compare with previous experiences, tho 😐

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Madza

Probably my best decision ever to leave it many years ago πŸ˜‰
Just my personal opinion, I don't judge πŸ˜‰

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited
  • dev.to
  • localhost:3000
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Madza

Let me guess! Express or NextJS? πŸ˜€

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Nuxt

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Madza

Oh, haven't dive that much in Vue, yet πŸ˜‰

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Yogi

Bruh its 2021

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Madza • Edited

Thanks a lot for your kind words! πŸ˜‰ Glad you find them useful πŸ™β€
Yeah, once you get pulled in, Twitter could get pretty addictive πŸ˜‰ Tho it could be used to find some valuable, high-quality information, too πŸ˜‰ Like I compiled here πŸ˜‰πŸ“š

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Kinanee Samson

Twitter

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BjΓΆrn Hjorth

Removed my Twitter account as it could eat up an entire morning.

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Madza

That's on the lucky side πŸ˜€πŸ˜€ It could also be most of the whole day without you even noticing πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Manav Misra

This one! πŸ˜†

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Hermes Caretta (he/him)

Twitter for sure

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Cloud9Host.com

Like Sunny, I also enjoy reading LET as well as a few webhosting forums like: HostBoards.com

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Margo McCabe

Instagram! πŸ˜”

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Takunda Madechangu

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, 127.0.0.1:8000, vscode