Never did networking. I use Telegram, Discord, X to keep up with announcements from projects, takes an hour or two daily, depending on day and allows me to keep up with alll shit going on with coins I hold — it's also a kind of necessity because projects often come with this migration and shit like that, it's necessary to keep up.
That's the part I cut out from my life, the 'keeping up'. That's the doomscrolling I was talking about. An hour or two daily to read, an hour or two to chat, an hour or two to login and check shit, it all adds up. Like you said becomes a necessity. One project burns, tells to update wallet, tells to move network, sign this sign that, airdrop this and that. I know exactly what you're talking about 
Some claim it's "research" but it's really not, because most of it goes to waste, even if it's purely about crypto, like reddit, this forum, twitter, instagram, tiktok, doesn't matter which one, as long as you spend hours on it, most goes to waste and for "fun" stuff and that doomscrolling ends up being something bad. We should be doing something a lot better for the long term, it's not focusing on how to grow further with getting a lot better result if we could get the greater return in the end, that's important.