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The Web's Biggest Time Hogs

by Tom Conlon on May 30, 2007 at 03:31 PM

The Web's Biggest Time Wasters

YouTube

YouTube is doing to us what MTV did in the '80s and what regular TV did back in the '50s: It's rotting our brains. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but it's certainly rotting away at our relationships and other activities. In a recent Harris poll of frequent YouTube users:

  • 66 percent claim they are sacrificing other activities when on YouTube
  • 36 percent say their visits to the site are most likely to have been at the expense of visiting other websites
  • 32 percent say their time spent watching TV is next most likely to have taken a hit
  • 20 percent think that YouTube also pre-empts e-mail and other online social networking
  • 19 percent defer work/homework
  • 15 percent aren't playing video games
  • 12 percent are not watching DVDs
  • 12 percent aren't spending time with friends and family in person

Hmm ... no mention of books. What a surprise.

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