Facebook. What an amazing tool to keep in touch with friends and family across the world. It was also the one site that every single person visited multiple times. It is truly amazing how much time our generation spends on facebook. On a few blogs I read that even though they had no reason to visit facebook or they had just visited facebook they had to go back. I can relate to this feeling. To me it is almost automatic; if I turn on my computer I will go on to facebook. Whether my intentions are to check my email, print something out, or finish a paper facebook somehow is always opened. Even as I am writing this blog post I can see my news feed in the background.
Another similarity I noticed was how much time is spent on unimportant things. I could be netflix, collegehumor, or stumbleupon but the majority of time spent online really has no significant impact. This was astounding to me. I knew that our generation spent a lot of time unconsciously searching the web but I did not realize how prevalent it actually was. One can argue the importance of surfing the net, but can you really remember the videos you watched on youtube last week, or the pictures you saw on stumbleupon. Imagine how much could get done if we did not waste as much time. I don’t mean to sound accusatory as I am certainly guilty of the aforementioned crimes, but I was amazed by what I saw.
As I was looking through the blog posts of my classmates I was pleased to see that most people make a daily habit of reading a few news stories online. Whether it is a silly yahoo story or a more serious news source, keeping up to date on current event is important and it was nice to see that some productivity took place online
I can totally agree that people our age really do waist a lot of time just puttering around the internet. Personally it can sometimes feel like a problem. Which is why I think its a good idea to either turn off the internet, or just stay away from a computer while doing work. But it is just so much fun to troll the web
ReplyDeleteI noticed the same thing. I feel like the majority of the time I spend online could be used doing more useful things. Honestly, there are so many tasks I could get done without using the web but it is sometimes too easy to just see what is going on around the world.
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