7 Productive Ways to Spend Your Time on the Internet

There’s more to the online world than playing games and watching videos

Olha Bahaieva
Curious
Published in
7 min readMay 24, 2021

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You have many demands for your time. Have you thought about how many hours you spend playing games or watching silly videos? When you open Tik Tok and then stop watching it, you realize that a couple of hours have passed, but you feel it was 30 minutes max.

According to the Digital 2021 Global Statshot report, the average time spent on the internet daily is 6 hours 56 minutes. This is a really insane amount of time.

This research shows that internet usage has become our daily routine and affects our lives negatively. There is a lot of time spent on the internet that doesn’t benefit you and doesn’t contribute anything productive to your life.

If you’re looking for a way to spend your time, it probably isn’t playing games or watching videos. If you don’t know what to do with your time on the internet, here are 7 productive things you can do.

Develop a Habit

When we talk about habits online, the word “habit” comes up so often that we sometimes forget what it means.

We use the word “habit” to describe things that we do on a repetitive basis, usually at a predictable time of day.

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Olha Bahaieva
Curious

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