Tfw used to be an avid reader

>tfw used to be an avid reader
>tfw when I discover Veeky Forums
>start browsing /gif/ for gore, porn and ylyl
>see there's a literature board
>'great, an online community of book readers like myself'
It's been one year since and I haven't read a book in two months.Books used to be my escape, now I shitpost here and look for good posts.
>mfw when unironically Veeky Forums destroyed my reading habbit

You can do both OP. I dick around here during the day and usually have enough time atleast read for an hour or so.

so stop browsing all the time? damn, what a difficult problem......

>mfw when unironically Veeky Forums destroyed my reading habbit

That's kind of ironic, though, don't you think

lurk for five years before posting

Veeky Forums is a bad place to be, it confuses people, you are debating the world with teenagers and you think you can tell them from more mature channers, but you can't. There is no compromise on any post, which is what makes it great but also what limits it. A lot of people here don't do much outside what they do here (shitpost, fap, lurk, etc) and their life experience is limited. You think you don't listen to idiotic advice, but the stupidities you read here stay winding up inside your head. You can get by and enjoy it all the way you want, I won't deny it's pretty fun to just call people faggots and shitpost on some banality like capeshit movies or slav fashion. But it drains your soul and you start to see the world with Veeky Forums goggles, which is pure shit and it will either get you depressed, or turn you into a nazi shithead, or in anyway wrap you around the lifestyle of scrolling through threads after threads and asking Veeky Forums about any idea you come up with during the day, ways to meme your way through your replies. I got here in 2006 and posted daily, spending most of my day here up until 2011-12, when I dropped and tried to stay away from it. It's like a drug. The first hours and days are the worst because you have pending threads and you want to see the replies, but you can use an offline time like when you travel to go through this more easily. Then you just don't come back and it's amazing after you just forget this exist. Of course, get out of the computer in general, which makes it easier. I went one year without a computer to counter my addiction. But above all, the trick is to not let it slip in case you come back. Me right now I came specifically to ask something on a specific board and am now shitposting while waiting on the replies. I know I'll be here today and perhaps tomorrow, but then I'm gone, like I did a few times before. Get out of here. I recommend it.

I somewhat agree with you. Like sometimes throughout the day I'll think up ideas or see things and then wonder if it would make a good Veeky Forums post. Which of course derails the "natural" thought process I should be going through

Good and honest post.

Trips of truth.

Counterpoint: I learn about a lot of shit on Veeky Forums that I'd have no idea about otherwise. If it weren't for Veeky Forums, for example, I'd have no idea who Borges, Pessoa, or Gene Wolfe were. Maybe that's a condemnation of me as an incurious person, but it is what it is. I like this site because there's just a lot of shit you get on the various boards that it's hard to come across on the rest of the internet. I think as long as you have some concrete thing in your life (like your family or your religion) to keep you from being warped by the perspectives on here, you can use Veeky Forums to good effect.