/biz/ - Business & Finance

When did you realize how much of a waste of time this website is?

I just came to the realization that I could be doing ANYTHING at all and it would be more productive. Nothing valuable ever happens here. You never learn anything new, you never get at the truth, you don't really gain anything whatsoever. This is probably the only activity that is an absolute waste of time. Even masturbation of playing videogames at least trains hand-eye coordination and pattern recognition. (mobs in WoW and BBC in pornhub video listings)

The closest you get is little bits and pieces, and scraping the very surface of different subjects (For example you might learn ECON101 from /biz/, the first few chapters and little excerpts of programming knowledge from /g/, maybe the very basics of exercise and nutrition from /fit/, the very tip of political systems from /pol/, et cetera) but then it pretty much stagnates there and never goes anywhere else. You don't really get opened to critical thought and theory (You might get the very basics of a system vs another system, but never really get indepth or understand the WHY), other than that it's almost entirely people who WANT to contribute to a discussion, but have nothing to contribute to it - as a result they might mockingly quote your post with a laughing image, as if to laugh at your ideas, but not formally refute them (perhaps because their knowledge limits them, or they don't feel like making themselves vulnerable in such a way).

This doesn't even begin to get into all the negative thoughts and ideas you marinate yourself with. The whole ">TFW no gf" and ">You will never ..." sentiment held on every board. This prolonged exposure simply cannot be well for a still malleable and developing(to varying degrees) brain of a young adult.

It's rather shocking how popular 4chan has grown, and the longer term effects of imageboards on the younger populations should be interesting to see.

Read and apply GTD - by David Allen