Interesting article.

Now I will post about it in my blog, including links to the most relevant parts, and I will send it to everyone on my "send links to" email list. I should also check to see if there are more articles that touch on the subject - whether they are for or against avoidance and why. After that, I will check my email list some of those people need to see this, too.

And should I Digg this? Or is that too ironic? I really don't know.

I do know that this is a wake-up call for those of us who spend too much time online. I just need to tell everyone whom I spend online time with.

thisdaydreamer: And should I Digg this? Or is that too ironic? I really don't know.

Digg the Fark thread. Start the greatest and most ironic waste of time in history.

Fark mysteriously absent from Subby's list.

It's a good thing I've been preparing myself for this for years with 8 hour Diablo and World of Warcraft binges. Browsing a few websites for an hour is actually considered "productive" where I come from.

UNC_Samurai: thisdaydreamer: And should I Digg this? Or is that too ironic? I really don't know.

Digg the Fark thread. Start the greatest and most ironic waste of time in history.

I think that's already been done before :/

seminole87: I don't even have a blog.

/I'm pathetic

Bah.

I check email once per day, have no device capable of receiving SMS, no Flikr account, no Facebook, no MySpace, and don't subscribe to any RSS feeds.

Hold that thought, Hadden just spawned...

I know someone who has wasted so much time that his birthdays are measured in negative numbers.

Webcomics, man. That, my email and Architecture Design.

/Damn you, Order of the Stick!
//Although I preffer the distractions in the form of boobies

I've never understood how "spending" time doing something you enjoy is considered "wasting" it.
Wasting time is watching Ninth Gate. Spending time is reading about something you find interesting or emailing friends, etc.
/doth she protest too much?

seminole87: I don't even have a blog.

/I'm pathetic

I don't have a blog either, but had thought of creating one to post pics of my whore ex-wife.

/still mulling it over

This article is worthless without a nod toward fantasy football.

I got an iPhone on Friday so I didn't get any work done for the entire day.

Now I am working on Sunday. Damn you, technology.

shackelford: seminole87: I don't even have a blog.

/I'm pathetic

I don't have a blog either, but had thought of creating one to post pics of my whore ex-wife.

/still mulling it over

pics or...oh wait.

shackelford: seminole87: I don't even have a blog.

/I'm pathetic

I don't have a blog either, but had thought of creating one to post pics of my whore ex-wife.

/still mulling it over

I'm pretty sure a lot of Farkers would like to see, er, read that blog.

I gotta go pick up more oranges!

Am i wasting my time when I read an article about wasting my time?

shackelford
"I don't have a blog either, but had thought of creating one to post pics of my whore ex-wife."

During pillowtalk, she told me you have no such pics. Then we did it doggiestyle again...

My car got wrecked by a high-as-a-kite 16 year old (in my lane, with her lights off) about two and a half years ago.

So I started taking the bus, which ran from within a block of my house to the front steps of the building all my classes and work were in. But it took 50 minutes to get there, instead of 5 to 10 if you drove straightaways.

So I tried bringing my laptop a couple of times to get work done... tricky as hell. Read textbooks for awhile, but too much distraction to get much of anything done. Only had texting on my cell after they finally noticed I had been getting internet access for free, and I never did feel like paying for it after that.

So I started grabbing the free student paper on my way to the stop and started doing crosswords.

So am I a hipster because my now-damn-near-addictive distraction is decidedly Lo-tech?

/probably not
//my brother would still call me one
///Left the paper in the car so I could get work done
////Didn't work out that well, obviously

w_houle: This article is worthless without a nod toward fantasy football.

Fantasy football is just D&D for jocks.

I first saw this article using StumbleUpon while at work.

You forgot to check twitter...

No truer words have been spoken... I call DM!

The Angry Hand of God: Am i wasting my time when I read an article about wasting my time?

Is he wasting his time by writing an article about people using technology to waste time, then posting said article online?

"Obvious" tag trumps "Scary" tag.

What am I supposed to be doing with this wasted time? Does anybody know?

time's a wastin'

The biggest time waster since Fark.com. It's a productivity killer of the worst type. (p)

Slick Johnson: The biggest time waster since Fark.com. It's a productivity killer of the worst type. (p)

/shakes fist at webgames, then goes back to playing them

I'm ignoring customers to read Fark, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

Has this guy ever given a thought about what a catastrophe it would be if people didn't have diversions? Sure, most people coast through life, but then again most people are assholes.

If everyone spent all their time driving as hard as they could toward their "goals", we would have a world torn apart by about 6,828,000,000 wanna-be Napoleons, Oppenheimers, and Hitlers.

I would have submitted this, but I have to check my email in 26 minutes.

Speaking of time wasters, guess what I played yesterday for the first time in ages? Snood.

shackelford: I don't have a blog either, but had thought of creating one to post pics of my whore ex-wife.

/still mulling it over

I, sir, would like to subscribe to your new blog.

i'm a poster!
i'm a possssster!!!
read my possssssst!!
i'm a poster!

Sufferers are also more likely to have accidents at home involving unmended appliances. Tim Allen replies... "Don't worry honey, the 7500 watt generator hooked up to your dildo is a battery saving device"

someahole: If everyone spent all their time driving as hard as they could toward their "goals", we would have a world torn apart by about 6,828,000,000 wanna-be Napoleons, Oppenheimers, and Hitlers.

So if Hitler had a MySpace page, WWII would never have happened?

/interesting idea

"time-wast?"

He checked email, texts, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace and RSS feeds before submitting but couldn't be bothered with the one check he really needed.

Thanks to RSS feeds, particularly Fark's, I never get anything done.

The psychs just want more money. Maybe I'll just go back to reading from books and watching TV and writing letters hoping the postal service delivers them in a couple weeks..then they'll be happy.

onecoolshe: The psychs just want more money.

You really should get that adult ADHD checked out. I heard about this new drug called Focasil that's supposed to help.

/side effects include headache, nausea, dry mouth and the desire to take over the world

Christ, even all the time I spend on Eve Online has deprived me of sex

I waste time like no other using hi tech advances that have saved me lots of time so I have more time to waste.

feelgood47: Christ, even all the time I spend on Eve Online has deprived me of sex

Well yeah, it takes an hour to do anything in that game. Go cross system, set to auto pilot, if you're still at it when you get there then you are a god among men.

At least people surfing the internet are reading and/or doing something interactive on a minimal level. It's better than sitting in front of the tv, watching the latest whores battle it out for 15 minutes of fame on the Real World or whatever crap Fox has people eating for money these days. I'd rather someone spend an hour browsing wikipedia than spend 10 minutes watching commercials on tv any day.

SpinalTapp: At least people surfing the internet are reading and/or doing something interactive on a minimal level. It's better than sitting in front of the tv, watching the latest whores battle it out for 15 minutes of fame on the Real World or whatever crap Fox has people eating for money these days. I'd rather someone spend an hour browsing wikipedia than spend 10 minutes watching commercials on tv any day.

Totally, I used to get bashed by my roommate that I spent too much time reading online, but he always spent hours and hours sitting on the couch watching sports and other dumb shiat...

As I'm currently writing this response up from work instead of actually doing any work, I'll agree.

SpinalTapp: At least people surfing the internet are reading and/or doing something interactive on a minimal level. It's better than sitting in front of the tv, watching the latest whores battle it out for 15 minutes of fame on the Real World or whatever crap Fox has people eating for money these days. I'd rather someone spend an hour browsing wikipedia than spend 10 minutes watching commercials on tv any day.

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CerusVI: but he always spent hours and hours sitting on the couch watching sports

Very true.
I cannot think of an activity with fewer redeeming values than watching sports on TV.

But I really do need to cut down on my web surfing time, especially Fark and Facebook. Though I do learn some interesting things and the latter gets me out to some fun events, it's easy to get sucked in for an entire day.

I'm usually watching sports on TV while I waste time on the internet.

So there.