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On a personal level, she finds the Internet dangerously addictive. Smith joined Facebook and quickly quit it, horrified by its ability to eat up her time. “With Facebook hours, afternoons, entire days went by without my noticing,” she says of her time on it. Unlike a writer like Margaret Atwood, Smith also dislikes the kind of instantaneous feedback that putting work online elicits. “I think constant feedback is not a very healthy thing for a writer,” she says. Nor does she feel it’s healthy on a social level, as she wrote in a 2010 essay for The New York Review of Books: “In Facebook, as it is with other online social networks, life is turned into a database, and this is a degradation . . . We know the consequences of this instinctively; we feel them.” Smith doesn’t qualify as a social butterfly, but she likes people, and she likes to keep her relationships with them in the physical realm, feels they are more properly human there. Eventually, she employed the Internet-blocking programs Freedom and SelfControl to force her off websites and into her Word document. They proved so helpful that she thanked the programs in the acknowledgments of NW “for creating the time.”

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