Entertainment slows us down?

Most people would agree that sitting in front of a screen is not the best way to spent you time, so why do we always want to do it instead of something productive. Deep down we know that the best thing to be doing is not to be entertaining yourself, but we do it anyways, usually because the most productive thing to do is to work on or at something, any everyone dreads working. I think that as entertainment gets better, it makes not doing anything far easier. 

I think that one thing that entertainment has provoked is the what i would call the "I deserve it effect", where you get home from school or from work and you think to yourself "I have been working, and have been exhausting myself for eight hours straight, and i deserve to sit back and relax for a little bit" I along with everyone I know does this. Most people would agree that the best way to do homework is just to get it done and out of your way right when you get home on a Friday night, so you don't have to worry about it for the rest of the weekend. But on a Friday, the "I deserve it" effect is at its strongest. New entertainment technology has made this even worse, because there is almost an infinite amount of things to do on your gadgets, and its easy to loose track of time when on them. For example there have been times when i get home, i like to have an after school snack, and watch an episode of Netflix. But sometimes, ill watch one more because i feel especially wiped out, and before i know it, its 8 O'clock, and i lost my whole entire night, and have done nothing productive.

Another thing that has been provoked by entertainment technology is procrastination. The reason I and many others end up doing homework at 10 O'clock on Sunday night every weekend. Procrastination is definitely not a new thing, but it has become so much worse because playing a game or watching something is so tempting, you want to figure what happens in a series, or your friends are wanting you to do something, and you tell yourself, i have the whole weekend to do this. And you keep wasting your time, and keep not getting anything done until it is 10 O'clock on a Sunday night. Technology provokes both of these concepts, and it is slowing us down.
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