Top 10 Online Time Wasters

Do you still think that playing online backgammon is a waste of time? Trust me, it can’t be alot worse…

Despite all the shortcuts it offers, the World Wide Web contains maybe the largest selections of free, easy and accessible ways to waste your time without doing anything useful, acquiring any valuable knowledge or even spending your hard earned money. Still, when you come to think the pre "cut and paste" era, about the times where you had to drag your weary feet from one distant store to another to find out the price of a hair dryer, you begin to appreciate the amount of time left to waste.

The term "time wasters" derives from the well rooted assumption that our entire days should be efficiently planned, so we will be productive even in our spare time. However, if haven’t committed any other deadly sin yet and you still care about your afterlife, stay away from this list of the top ten time wasters on the internet.

Shooting games

Computers may have saved us some of the hassles of bureaucracy, but not with the aggravation of tolerating intolerable persons.

Playing online shooting games is a civilized way to let loose some aggressions and waste your time at the same opportunity. Shooting games come in variety of themes and designs: if your childhood hero was Harry Callahan, you can aim at those cardboard targets; if you are a vegetarian, you might feel uncomfortable playing Chicken Invaders, and so on.

Tetris

If you are under 25, you will not recall the handheld black and white version of Tetris, but even if the image of falling blocks doesn’t tick your nostalgic sentiment, you must admit that Tetris, on its variety of versions and platforms, is still one of the most addictive, in the positive meaning, time wasters on the web.

Wait! Correction: Tetris is not a time waster. Researches show that playing Tetris improves the brain’s functioning.

Line Rider

"The latest Internet Phenomenon" allow you to experience extreme sports without risking the wholeness of your limbs. All you are required is to use a basic drawing tool and to challenge your virtual sledder with ramps, barriers and other obstacles and to locate it with any imaginable scenery. And if it wasn’t enough time waste, you can watch the movies created by other line riders.

Stumbleupon

A social network by definition, Stumbleupon enables you to kill time in front of your computer without even greeting any community member. Once you have logged in and marked your interests, you can find yourself pushing that button over and over in hope of finding a worthwhile website, where you will be able to waste your precious time more effectively.

Facebook

Do you remember the name of your kindergarten friend? Nevermind if you don’t; Facebook, currently the world’s largest social network, gives you a reason to waste your time looking after people you’ve forgot you’ve forgot about them.

Quizzes and Personality Tests

Though even in pre-internet times you could’ve opened a Cosmo and figure out which fun fearless fiction read is right for you? The internet has increased the number of quizzes and personality tests and made it more easily reached, and who can resist knowing which Spears family member he/she is?

Celebrity Gossip

Speaking of Spears family, the lives of all the self destructive celeb are documented 24/7 on the internet top gossip sites, and you can easily find yourself hooked up on the latest Britney/Lindsay/Amy public disasters.

Lol Cats

Dogs’ types may grind their teeth, but most others would clap their hands to the endless selection of pictures and videos of cats in variety of positions and resemblances to historic figures.

Youtube

Though it may have lost some of its primary appeal and its competitors may be superior, Youtube can still provide hours of entertaining time wasting, in which you can view home videos of coordination-challenged dancers to old TV commercials from Japan.

Top Ten Lists

Top ten list of worst rock band names in history, top 10 strangest lego creations, top ten stupidest lists… For an intensive waste of your time, you can make a top ten list by yourself.

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