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The 15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web

pcworld.com — It's first thing in the morning and you're at the office. You're sipping your coffee and sifting through e-mail, but you're not quite ready to delve into the real work of the day. So what are you gonna do? Fire up your Web browser and distract yourself by wasting time on the Internet.

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  • esthero, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49Print version http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128122/printable.html
    • tafkase7en, on 10/12/2007, -9/+78What a crappy list...
    • PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -11/+258Where the hell is digg?
    • Breakpoint25, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4I usually go watch online tv at http://www.channelking.com
    • rideagain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Site shoves big intrusive ads in front of the article = bleh. No dig from me.
      Thanks for the print link, though.
    • SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@PatrickFisher

      It was usurped by Reddit, but it at least gets a mention in that paragraph.
    • theBrink, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1digg runs at #6 with Reddit, they should have just thrown fark in there as well, it's the same thing except less newsworthy...
    • krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -5/+25it seems i must be missing where it lists digg and slashdot. they must be covered by these ads.
    • mcnugget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44That list itself was a waste of time...
    • MusicalGenius, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5tafkase7en:
      I agree for 2 reasons...
      No Line Rider
      No Digg
    • silverfire, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2WHERE'S 4CHAN?! It's missing from the list.
    • vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -10/+11INACCURATE! No Digg, Slashdot, YTMND, Somethingawful, or Newgrounds
    • ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9But Runescape at least made it...all those wasted nights..
    • mewithoutyou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70But seriously..where's Wikipedia...Surely I'm not the only person who wastes hours learning about completely pointless stuff.
    • shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4jesus, now I have to navigate a pop-up menu just to see the rest of the article. Who the hell thought of that?
    • aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@ptrcd003 (or something like that)

      Man...I wasted like 6 months of my life playing that game...did finally get a purple party hat...
    • artanis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I only dugg because of Fark being in the top 3.
    • MiddleGirth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Fark is teh ghey.
    • Emanji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ROFL i was gonna say something about this, but i gave up on commenting these stupid top 10 lists.
  • Fission, on 10/12/2007, -5/+59No Digg on the list but Reddit somehow manages to get there... What is that?
    • clievers, on 10/12/2007, -14/+11Yeah no kidding. Digg should be #1.
    • klaymen, on 10/12/2007, -8/+73no Digg = no digg
    • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18FARK is on here but Digg is not? And what about bash.org? I call *****.
    • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?u=digg.com&u=reddit.com

      Funny how they both spike at the same time, in mid april 06. At any rate, digg beats the crap out of reddit.

      Personally, my list is:
      Digg fark slashdot boingboing thedailywtf
    • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Boo ***** hoo, no digg. It's mentioned, isn't that good enough?
      I'm not a digg basher (by any means), I'm just sick and tired of the X vs X wars. Sigh.
  • RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -13/+52My list

    #1-15: Digg.com
  • ers35, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32#16:

    Having to press buttons on the bottom to read all of an article.
  • warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Do I digg a list of websites for wasting time that doesn't include DIGG....hmmm....maybe I should be getting back to work....
  • Shadewell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Its PC World no wonder its such a crappy list.
  • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3YES, Best of Craigslist! It's all the best stuff selected from millions and millions of Craigslist posts. I have wasted many a company hour on there. A lot of it is social commentary rants though, which can get a little old. But it's like a bottomless pit of posts.
  • MisterCookie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Fark got on there? Well, I guess the site is a waste of time...
  • aussieaubs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34don waste ur time clicking thru - here it is

    1. YouTube.com
    2. Craigslist.org
    3. Fark.com
    4. The Internet Movie Database
    5. Flickr.com
    6. Reddit.com
    7. Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D Beta
    8. Triplets and Us
    9. RuneScape
    10. Rotten Tomatoes
    11. Moola.com
    12. AOL In2TV
    13. HOT or NOT
    14. Pogo.com
    15. What Would Tyler Durden Do?
  • GoatBnnn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUJFfgRcqI
  • betterth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13No Digg? No digg.
  • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8runescape? what bunch of ***** got that on the list!

    as for me, i probably spend the most time at google.com/ig, opening up my browser to all of my rss feeds
    • mink78, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Ditto. Front and center of my google is the top 15 stories from digg. Thank you google for adding multiple pages/tabs to the personalized google page.
  • techitout, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I think they missed two big pieces here: (1) streaming music sites like Pandora or Last.fm, and (2), probably most importantly, YOUR OWN BLOG. I mean, how many hours a week do we try to get the widget-of-the-moment to work right?
    • HaggisMac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Indeed. I'm probably responsible for 15% of the traffic to my own website.

      I still can't get that new last.fm widget to work right. :)
  • justnisdead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3one site:

    http://popurls.com/
  • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Digg x 15....
  • broXc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15It's missing YTMND.
  • remo2012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Youtube?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPnYRTH6OQ
  • otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Uh?

    Runescape? IMDB?

    Retarded as hell list.
    • gonpost, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Runescape should definately be on there... Believe it or not, as a purely browser game, it's quite amazing what Jagex (the company that created runescape) has done with the game.
  • jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The fact that we're here should indicate that we don't need any advice on how to waste time on the internet.
  • HaggisMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My daily reads, in no particular order:
    Digg, Fark, Slashdot, Neowin, Engadget, Sci Fi Wire, Hollywood Reporter, Egotastic, Idon'tLikeYouInThatWay, PerezHilton, and lots of blogs from friends and those i've discovered through them.

    For the record, Fark is the #1 time waster for me, but Digg is coming close due to faster submissions. Digg is where I go for real information, Fark is where I go to laugh and be a snarky ***** like the rest.
  • Buga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Funny, they mention Reddit and not Digg and Reddit isn't even working right now, haha
  • GDunck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I am sorry but that list is *****...where is digg?
  • anocross, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Fails for not mentioning Digg, bash, or 4ch /b/
  • theBrink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1scratch my earlier comment, digg should have been listed along with fark, it's the same thing anymore...
  • Barman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This list is foolish. I waste more time on digg than all of these sites combined!
  • theratdotus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3no digg? *points at kevin and laughs*
  • wisie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm quite surprised ebay didn't make it.
  • sdphost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12no Wikipedia? i can waste hours on that.
  • misw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And how about www.purewasteoftime.com ?
  • wiremonkeymommy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow.. as if digg wasn't enough for me already
  • Dpack1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0along the lines of Digg/Reddit... They mention Fark but no Something Awful?

    No Digg from me.
    • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3nearly every web filter blocks somethingawful, not fark
  • BradC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks to the WebSense used by my company, I can get to about 3 of those sites. Yay!
  • JohnnyHuh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I've never been to most of those sites. Does that make me cool?
  • dewdew13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg is buried under #6 reddit.com, along with slashdot and del.icio.us.
    Should have been the other way around. I agree that wikipedia's absence
    is an omission. I love "random page".
  • Freakwilly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Digg isn't on their top 15. I set this as lame. lol
  • Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Hmm, seems to me it should be..

    1. Digg
    2. Digg
    3. Youtube
    4. Digg
    5. Break.com
    6. Google
    7. Digg
    8. Digg
    9. Digg
    10. IM Clients
    11. Myspace
    12. Digg
    13. Digg
    14. Digg
    15. Digg
  • Ashkc88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.virtualnes.com > Triplets and Us
    Half of the games on Triplets and Us don't work or are very buggy. Very very bad list...I haven't spent more than 20 minutes on any of those sites (besides Runescape and Youtube of course).
  • historyfool24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg is one big chunk of my day, i wonder if thats sad or not
  • liamhuston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is an incredibly lame list. My dead grandmother could've come up with something more interesting.
  • MSTK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone have an invite to moola?
    • ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a few. email trekker.techsupport (at) gmail.com and I'll send you one.

      The first two or three after MSTK (I forget how many I have) can have an invite.
  • T3hl33tg33k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Runescape is horrible, and they should have just put Kingdom of Loathing in its place. Also, I think reddit should be first.
  • lavidalivadas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0They missed an obvious time-waster: http://abouttoslitmywrists.com
    Don't forget to leave some hateful anonymous comments! (No registration required)
  • imran7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Photosynth is so cool
  • neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wtf? no digg or ytmnd.com?
  • phir0002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no digg = lame
  • bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The list does suck, but I was intrigued by the thought of being able to watch old 70's sitcoms and checked out the AOL Television link they suggested. Once there I found a link to the George Carlin Show, which used to air on FOX. Great I thought, then I received this:

    "We're sorry, content protected by Digital Rights Management is not available on the Macintosh."

    If a web site is useless to say, up to 10% of the population (those who don't run Windows, not just us Mac people), it's not good.

    Oh, and FARK became passé about two years ago.
    • MrDarkSim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did you try Winamp?It has that In2TV in there in the TV section.Maybe that would work for your Mac.I use it occasionally for the Sci-fi shows.
  • Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm amazed that, although apparently these are the best of the best sites to spend time on, I'd only heard of half of them.

    However, I'm happy to see some good sites, such as youtube and runescape, on there. People may not like those sites, but one has to admit -- they do whittle away your time quite well.

    *expects his message to receive nothing but negativity because he plays "RUNESCAPE FAWG LOLZ"*
  • yllabianbitpipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These sites that offer up a top ten list where each item is on a separate page is really starting to annoy me.
  • tfsr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We realize that Digg isn't on this list by itself or #s 1-15.
    Please stop posting and exclaiming this fact to us.
    Thx.
  • Rikushix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1one nobodies mentioned is www.rinkworks.com. not too classy, but i could spend (and have spend) hours looking up "computer stupidities" for example.
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