How long should you spend on a computer a day?

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I realized I spend to much time on the computer. How much time would be a good amount, 3 hours a day?

edit: I mean non productive time, such as watching a tv show on hulu, checking facebook. If I was working on a computer program that would be different

how did you realize you spend too much time on the computer? were there specific symptoms? is there something you need to be doing that your time on the computer interferes with? cut back until the too-muchness subsides.

It's time to cut back on computer time when you start to sound like Hal from "2001 A Space Oddessy."

It really does just depend on the person

If it starts getting in the way of your life then it's a problem, otherwise just be careful of your eyesight and don't worry about it. I probably average around 4 - 6 hours a day excluding work. If you include work it gets silly

I know I've made some bad decisions lately Dave, but I really think you should take a stress pill and and sit down and think about this calmly. I still have the utmost confidence in the mission. Dave? Dave?

It depends on the person or any government health recommendations, the british recommendations are around a total of two hours combined, computer, TV, probably even sitting still as long there is 15 minute breaks every 30 minutes. For me... around 14 hours a day... don't sound great...

Any time I am not out with friends I have a computer either gaming watching a show or just browsing the internet. Most of the time I am doing other things while it is playing media but I still always have it on. And I agree with RazorEddie if it gets in the way of doing other things then it is too much.

I guess it depends on what other things you could do throughout the day really. It's just something I like to do with any of the spare time I have despite the fact I still wish I was more busy.

Early 2000's ... Internet addiction, we've moved beyond such silly things. Its like being addicted to video games - its just a way of life now. Game away! No longer are the days of enjoying life outside the home.

I'm a heavy "non-productive" computer user as well as productively at school. Probably somewhere around 6 hours a day. Most people probably spend that much time chitchatting!! ! I'd be thrilled if I could make 1 hour of that ENJOYABLE conversation with people, and two more hours of that productive work (this would include working on programming video games of my own.) Probably would be good practice for when I get a job...

I'm an addict. 6 hours a day at least. This has been going on for more years than I care to admit.

I've been working to turn that into something productive though. I've also been trying to get back to reading more, and am trying to teach myself to play the keyboard.

i would say most of the day.

I've now had a machine and the web six years .. theres 2k plus books here accumulated over the last forty years and I always was book orientated.

However these last two or three months I have made concious effort to reduce my time here looking at the machine. I used to be three hours a.m. and five hours evening, these are more hours than I actually work for a living, I have multiple interests and of course each one had to be fed from online. I found some sessions profitable but others afterwards seemed a waste of that time, I was learning nothing, just jumping from pretty page to pretty page.

So therefore I make a point of being focused on books, bio, technical, occasional novel, whatever!! I buy rather than borrow (remaindered / secondhand) ..... I'm a little bit phobic of public libraries and prefer to keep a book that I perhaps have spent ten or twenty hours reading. I can actually be a slow reader but my wife can be amazed at my recall.

Thing is, when i get the urge to switch on or yet once again look for messages from friends or yet again tweak something.... I therefore use 'visualisation', I deliberately have some instant pop up pic in my mind that I use, bit like a slide show. It is actually interesting how much visualisation can achieve, how you can use it. Mine is to in my minds eye grab a lump of clay, throw it on the board and work it into the beginnings of a simple pot. hey presto, i turn to a book. I'm learning more too.

And funnilly I have far richer conversation, I had not realised this before ..... I talk to my wife abt what I've read, the ideas, the person perhaps if its bio. This is very interesting .. somethingI hadn't realised before, its as if by being book orientated again I have turned a tap on to ideas and culture.

I wish web obsession was more widely recognised and the dangers etc.