WAISTED TIME ON-LINE

FACEBOOK USERS HAVE WASTED ROUGHLY 800,000 WORK HOURS WRITING "25 THINGS ABOUT ME" LISTS:

If you're on Facebook, then you've almost certainly received one of those "25 Things About Me" lists by now. (--If you have no idea what I'm talking about, basically, Facebook users have been writing 25 facts about themselves . . . which they then post on their Facebook page. It's fairly self-explanatory.)

Anyway, according to Facebook officials, 5 MILLION of these "25 Things" lists have been posted on the website in just the past week. That's 125 MILLION "facts".

Now, if you assume it takes each person about ten minutes to create their list, that means Facebook users have wasted nearly 800,000 work hours just this week . . . coming up with "25 Things About Me" lists. (--And you wonder why we're in a recession . . .) (Time)