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'Internet Distractions' Personifies the Angels and Demons of the Taskbar

by Caleb Johnson on February 2, 2010 at 05:50 PM

For a student, the Internet can be a powerful productivity tool, but it's, unfortunately, a double-edged sword. Sure, you can dive in and research that paper topic you've been assigned; however, you can just as easily spend hours upon hours trolling social networking sites, watching videos on YouTube, or lost amongst any other number of today's digital distractions. It's okay. This has happened to all of us at one point or another.

Obviously, staying focused is tough enough with those alluring icons lined across the bottom of your screen. But what if they could talk, further enticing you to put off writing that paper? That's the premise behind this hilarious video from the folks at College Humor. In the clip, a student opens up Microsoft Word (you can think of it as the halo-donning angel program on your right shoulder). Just as he's about to start typing what would surely be a riveting paper on "The Study of Ions", Firefox (the devil program, sporting a pitchfork, on your left shoulder) dupes the poor sap into checking his e-mail. As you well know, it snowballs from there. There are Facebook notifications to check, a new episode of 'Chuck' is ready for download, and some adult video clips are enticing him further down the path of procrastination.

If icons ever do talk (hey, if a beer keg can tweet...), we'll have to start doing all our writing on paper again. Either that, or we'll be sure to use another Web browser so as not to be distracted by that mouthy Firefox. [From: College Humor]

Tags: collegehumor, distraction, facebook, firefox, funny, internet, socialnetworking, students, top, video, youtube

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