Although I convicted the internet for providing "easy access to stupid low-effort entertainment", I don't think it will or should change. I know I can't hold anything or anyone except myself responsible for what I spend my time on.

I think you and I are referring to different sets of things by "time-wasting". I generally am a good and productive student. I work hard and I get a lot done. I always strive to do more, but I do not think that I spend too much time on entertaining things rather than "work". I think that's what you refer to when you talk about time wasted: time spent on unproductive activities.

I wish my unproductive activities were different. When I talk about wasting time, I mean unproductive time spent on things that don't provide me with much reward or happiness.

You point out that while the entertainment media have changed drastically between your college years and mine, the existence of easy and unproductive activities hasn't changed. That's actually exactly what I'm complaining about. I realize the internet is a wonderful resource and is revolutionizing the world in countless positive ways. But when it comes to entertaining ourselves, I wish we had to depend on the means available before the internet. I think they are more rewarding.

However, you aren't wrong. Many of the things I wish I spent my free time on haven't changed over the last thirty years, and I would have found another low-effort thing to do instead of them if I had gone to college with you, such as reading good books and playing piano. I'm a time waster because I'm a time waster. My post was certainly intended to serve as a self-conviction of such. I want to stop doing stupid low-effort things. But you certainly put it a lot more clearly than I did (perhaps that's why I'm writing kind of defensively: you pointed out the truth, and the truth is that I suck).

I just wish my friends would more readily talk with me or go do something crazy with me (or even play video-games with me, as I mentioned in my OP) than they would spend their bored hours watching pirated TV or browsing the Reddit frontpage alone in their rooms.

Then again, maybe I'm just a complainer looking for somewhere else to shift the blame for lacking the social experience I wish I had. What do you think?