bitcoin affects my life a lot, at first i spend a lot of time on bitcointalk and besides that i can invest in bitcoins
but it does not mean that you have wasted your time i think you turn made your time more precious, getting information about bitcoin is very good. i can see that most of the people are wasting their time using face book on chatting and in other useless activities so it is better you get some useful information, i hope that these information will give good benefit in future.