Back when the web was just where spiders lived, college students were forced to mill about their dorm rooms to procrastinate, looking for a sock drawer to reorganize or a pile of dirty laundry to finally clean. But now there are entire websites built around the concept of consuming your precious time, bit by bit, and one of the most egregious culprits is Netflix.

Everyone loves Netflix, the revolutionary streaming service that puts thousands of hours of movies and television at your fingertips for mere dollars a month. Suburban housewives can watch endless amounts of romantic comedies, traveling businessmen can catch up on “CSI: Miami,” and college students can binge-watch an Emmy-winning drama (“House of Cards”) or enjoy a documentary about owners of popular YouTube channels (“Please Subscribe”).

Unfortunately, Netflix is now one of the many activities competing for a college student’s scarce yet invaluable time. Many students fail to realize how much aggregate time they actually lose to Netflix. For instance, “Breaking Bad” is a show that many Netflix users binge-watched (myself included), but most do not realize they have dedicated more than 45 hours to it. Historically, people would watch new episodes of television shows as they came out over several years, as opposed to cramming those 45 hours into a few weeks.

According to one study published by Geoffrey Graybeal, a professor in media and communications at Texas Tech University, 68 percent of all college students admit to having used Netflix to binge-watch a television show at some point. The survey defined binge-watching as viewing a minimum of three or more episodes at once, but it could entail watching entire seasons at a time.

Often, Netflix users explain that they binge-watch simply because of the ease of clicking “play” on the next episode in the series. Yet even the simple tap of a play button is becoming obsolete and unnecessary. As most Netflix users are probably aware, Netflix has implemented an “auto-play” feature for when an episode ends—that is, Netflix will begin playing the next episode in the series after a matter of mere seconds.

Therefore, Netflix users can sit idle, and they will be conceding to watch another episode of the show. Then, before they even realize what has happened, they are midway into the second season of “Scandal,” and it is nearly 5 a.m., meaning Netflix has swindled them out of an entire night’s sleep again.

What makes this “auto-play” feature so unsettling is that Netflix is trying to encourage binge-watching. When considering whether to go to bed or watch yet another episode of “Gossip Girl,” Netflix basically places its coaxing hand on your shoulder, whispering “just one more episode” into your ear.

College students sweat to juggle their schedules even before adding Netflix into the equation. Most students claim there are not enough hours in the day for their busy schedules, which begs the question: Where is all this “free time” being allotted to Netflix coming from? With students suffering from an already deficient amount of free time, Netflix must be eating into the time of another (probably more important) activity.

For instance, Netflix could be hindering students from participating in certain extracurricular activities in which they would otherwise thrive. Similarly, Netflix could obstruct a healthy social life, sabotaging opportunities to hang out with friends. Or maybe Netflix could be pilfering time from the student’s studies, causing grades and academic achievement to suffer. Perhaps worst of all, Netflix could begin eating away at precious sleep time, which would ultimately be detrimental to nearly every aspect of life.

There is a cruel joke told to college students struggling to efficiently manage their time, which says that they must juggle between three activities: social life, academic life and sleep. The joke then says, “pick two.” It’s about time Netflix is considered the fourth time-gobbling option from which college students must choose.