Has everyone gone completely insane?
'Self Control' is an app that blocks certain websites for a limited amount of time, supposedly to help a person concentrate on their work, and is said to be turning people into harder working (yet horrifyingly technology dependent) human beings. One of the problems I have with society hailing this new found concept of 'self control' as if no one had ever thought of it before and believing that the creator of the app should be praised as a new deity, is that it really begs the question, do we really need to be physically unable to access social network sites to be able to get anything done?
Distraction itself is a part of work. Think of everything that won't exist anymore because of a lack of distraction. I'm pretty sure some of the best things in creation were born out of a looming deadline and too much Redbull. Blogs will be all serious, instead of a respite from a long day of pretending to be working. The mona lisa was probably created because Van Gough was supposed to be doing the washing up.
What's even funnier is that the app is programmed so that if it is activated, the user is totally unable to access the internet for 90 minutes. This only creates mental images of people clawing at their iPhone, or smashing ope na laptop to see where Twitter is hiding.
I know my argument is flawed in sooooo many ways, but it is ridiculous to assume that humanity is so in need of motivation that it requires a third party application to physically disable it's internet capabilities. And if it is, then please find me another humanity to live amongst.
BYE.
If you are a sad human being, here is the link to the app :P
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31289/selfcontrol
