Bad Habit Of Mine / myLot

Canada

September 13, 2016 9:09am CST

Yes, I am about to confess here one of my bad habits. It is nothing big, but it is something that I would like to "cure" myself of doing. Every morning I start with good intentions but as the day goes on, I slip again and again. Here it is: I open too many tabs on my computer, way too many, as I get so excited sometimes to learn more and more info about different topics. That certainly must slow down my computer, but as every bad habit is hard to get rid of, I seem to be hopless. Do you have that problem too?

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471456)

• Switzerland

13 Sep 16

Yes, I confess, I am guilty of this same habit. Sometimes the computer freezes and I have to reboot.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

Same for me, I have to reboot the computer a lot lately, so opening too many tabs at one time is certainly wasting time. When will I ever learn?

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

14 Sep 16

@LadyDuck You sound just like me!

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471456)

• Switzerland

14 Sep 16

@marlina When I start to search I completely lose the notion of "time", I can spend hours reading articles.

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (19363)

• London, England

13 Sep 16

I used to, but the machine ran so slow I broke that habit

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vanny

@vandana7 (100300)

• India

13 Sep 16

One smart guy among so many smarter women...

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

I hope I can break that bad habit too.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

@vandana7 There is more than one smart guy around here.

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Sky

@skysnap (20153)

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13 Sep 16

haha i am guessing many of us have that problem.

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vanny

@vandana7 (100300)

• India

13 Sep 16

I'd say almost all of us..lol

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

I guess so!

Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

@vandana7 Wow! If most of us Internet users open too many tabs, it must add up to billions or even trillions of too many tabs open.

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

13 Sep 16

Nope - right now I have open, here, e-mail and FB....once in a blue moon I'll have 5 open. Never more than that.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

Good for you Abby.

AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

13 Sep 16

@marlina I don't like things 'junked up' looking it drive me up a wall and confused me.

amnabas

@amnabas (14181)

• Karachi, Pakistan

13 Sep 16

I go through the same too.

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vanny

@vandana7 (100300)

• India

13 Sep 16

You too...somewhere we are all human beings..lol

Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99380)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

I have to confess you are not alone! I do the same thing day after day!

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

@Happy2BeMe, We are bad, bad, bad.

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99380)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

@marlina we are but we are Canadian!! :)

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

14 Sep 16

@Happy2BeMe We are Canadian all right, 100% pure!

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vanny

@vandana7 (100300)

• India

13 Sep 16

I too do that...we are bad habit pals..lol

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

Yes, we sure are!

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Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111938)

• United States

13 Sep 16

Not for awhile there.I try to keep it mostly clean of this.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

@amadeo, You are one of the good one!

Jessica

@JESSY3236 (19941)

• United States

14 Sep 16

I am sorta guilty of this. I do open alot of tabs, but as soon as i read them i close them.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

14 Sep 16

I close the tabs too as soon as I read them.

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@Daljinder (23236)

• Bangalore, India

13 Sep 16

Yes I open all my notifications in new tabs one after the another. After I am done (which itself is a feat because myLot freezes in those cases) I open up new posts after posts from "Follow" tabs. lol

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

Which turns out to be wasted time, when the net freezes up.

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@Daljinder (23236)

• Bangalore, India

13 Sep 16

@marlina Exactly!

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Betty Belekis

@BettyB (4117)

• Summerville, South Carolina

13 Sep 16

I use a desktop with two monitors. I routinely keep too sites open (different servers) but I try to limit it to that.

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WinterRea

@AutumnSnow (4583)

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13 Sep 16

lol, I have a bad habit of that. I get to working on two or three things and have multiple tabs open. My problem is sometimes I forget to close everything when I get off the computer and when my daughter goes to get on she says uh mom do you want me to close this out,lol.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

I know the feeling!

meowhisper

@meowch (2220)

• United States

13 Sep 16

I have the same problem too. I open too many tabs on iPad and iPhone. Sometimes I forget that it slows my devices.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

13 Sep 16

I can see from all the responses that I am getting here that I am not the only one. Makes me feel better.

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Eitchy

@Eitchy (178)

• Johannesburg, Sudan

14 Sep 16

Yes I certainly have the same problem. I did not know that it could slow down my computer, but it makes for a very cluttered working environment, and very soon I don't know where I am, and what each tab was all about. I would be very good to find the root cause of this problem, and the solution to it.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (160708)

• United States

14 Sep 16

If I open too many tabs I feel anxious. I am not sure why. I really like your photo. I have other bad habits to discard.

rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

14 Sep 16

I only open 3 tabs , 2 tabs for myLot and the other one for others . After i am done with all the others , i add another tab for myLot .

Sue H.

@CinnamonGrl (7084)

• Santa Fe, New Mexico

13 Sep 16

Not so much anymore, because I'm not good at multitasking these days.Might be my pain medicine, might be my brain slowin' down, but I just find it difficult. I don't think opening the tabs is gonna slow down a computer much anymore. Maybe if there are a boatload of images or something.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340230)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 Sep 16

Reading through the comments, it seems many of us do this. Well, here's another one! :)

Teresa Trotter

@teresatrotter (4073)

• Jacksonville, Florida

15 Sep 16

I sometimes open up several tabs, but usually 3-4 at a time, max.

Ben

@Ben2111 (1)

• Israel

14 Sep 16

Every day....hhh