the time bugs (a war between the hours of the day)

Fucking social networking sites. They drive me crazy. They're so goddamn addicting! Talk about a waste of time. 

Do you ever stop and think about how much time one wastes during the course of a day? It's too bad there isn't a device that records wasted energy, the way we can wear pedometers to tell how many steps we've walked throughout the day. I bet that if we were to invent said "pedometer for wasted time" the hours wasted (yes, hours) would be astronomically high. 

Although I hate video games and I try not to watch too much television- mainly because I'm aware that they're both such mega time wasters- I definitely can say that I waste way too much time on social networking sites. And for what reason? I find myself lurking on people's pages that I've never met- and honestly could care less about starting a relationship with. I spend 20 minutes looking through an old classmate's photos just for the sake of sheer curiosity.

I'm not trying to say that social networking sites don't have any advantages- indeed, they have many. However, it would be a complete lie to say that there weren't disadvantages as well. Have you ever thought about how impersonal we have become? We no longer need to directly communicate with each other- instead we rely on e-mails and text messaging. Rather than getting to know one another the old fashioned way, we just read the information provided on their facebook site. We google them. We read the comments on their networking page and their own responses to them. We form opinions, whether we admit it or not. We pre-judge.

What an effing waste. I should really start documenting how much time I spend on networking sites per day, but let's be serious here- that would fail just as quickly as my attempt at keeping a food diary. 

The bottom line, kiddies, is to remain aware of how often you use said evil time wasters. Every once in a while, check yourself- if  you realize that you haven't taken that piss you needed to take hours ago and your kidneys are beginning to hurt, it's probably time to take a little breather. After all, this is life. It'd be silly to waste it playing Super Mario Brothers all day long.

Roll credits. Play song.

"Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know where, we don't know where"