A computer programmer in the US paid a woman $8.00 an hour to slap him every time he tried to check in to Facebook. Maneesh Sethi advertised the role after calculating that he was wasting 19 hours a week on social media sites. After hiring his “slapper”, he reckoned his productivity more than doubled.
Money and productivity isn’t everything. If you want to reduce your income and become poor and jobless by wasting your time you should be allowed to do so without being exposed on a blog like this. Epicureanism stands for enjoying your life. Whatever gives you pleasure is fine with Epicureans – as long as it is civilised and legal.
(posted with tongue in cheek)
Well, Facebook might be civilized and legal. But it seems to me that the computer programmer was in fact suffering from the knowledge that he was wasting his time. It was a type of addiction and Epicurus would be proud of this man for having faced up to his addiction, trying to control it.