[piaskal]

It's so easy to access all kinds of information from home nowadays, it can be better at fulfilling my curiosity than going out.

[bgilroy26]

I think that is a key problem in the Internet age. I would argue that cigarettes were so powerful because they make social interaction easier.

The Internet brings the cost of social interaction -- communion -- far lower than cigarettes ever did.

Because it is so valuable to so many people, lowering the cost of communing can incentives some terrible things by accident.

[antidoh]

The you're not curious about the right things. Or probably more accurately, you're an exception. Humans are social animals.