i keep wasting time reading pointless articles about everything. you know that natural curiosity for new information? well, since the internet, all the information in the world are now at your fingertips. who care if it's all user generated and you can't trust anything, just reading small summaries about every interesting subject you want is just a click away. ultimate satisfaction for the curious with a severe case of ADD. who wants to learn in depth when you can learn a little in a short amount of time and then move onto something else that's interesting. that constant high you get from learning something new, just a little, a fact here, a fact there. soon, you realize you spent the last week doing nothing but reading wikipedia and following links to links to links . learning about how everything works and is connected. it is the collective knowledge of the world all summarized and cataloged, footnoted, and indexed.
so because of this... i plead... does anyone have any rideline, i am an addict and i really need help
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We need to start a wiki-addiction support group. This is truly what it means to be high on information. Someone should study the effects of wikipedia browsing on the brain. I bet in involves lots of dopamine.
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