courtenaybird:

The reality, of course, is that human beings will find ways to waste time regardless of whether or not they have Internet access, and regardless of whether they even have a computer on their desks. Daydreaming while looking out the office window has probably eaten up trillions of dollars worth of productive work-time as well, but no one calculates the economic cost of windows or sunshine. And then there are smoke breaks, lunch breaks, water-cooler chat, and the time workers spend standing around next to each others’ desks talking about what they did on the weekend. The Internet didn’t invent time-wasting, any more than Facebook or Twitter did.

 Technoloy makes wasting time much more efficient.