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Top 13 Time-Sucking Websites

by Austin Harrap – Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary, Surrey BC Jul 12, 2010

For those of us who have decided this summer to lose contact with the outside world and instead practice becoming one with the computer, below are 13 time-sucking websites to begin with.

1. Formspring
Formspring is a website that allows you to ask your friends or maybe even just random people questions (anonymously if you so choose) about themselves. If you have an account, you can also answer questions that people ask you. What makes this site so addicting is that, well, don't we all wonder what people are wondering about us?


2. Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary is pretty much exactly what it sounds like it is. It's a dictionary of urban slang, with the definitions and terms contributed by the website’s readers. So whenever you’re wondering what it is your friends just said but are too embarrassed to actually ask them, you can just look it up yourself on this handy website. You can easily find yourself lost in a world of wonder as you read up on random slang that you’ve come across.

3. YouTube
YouTube is a place for us to watch videos that people have uploaded. What makes it so addicting is that you can find pretty much anything uploaded on this site – from video blogs to music to a part of your favourite TV show episode. You could definitely lose hours to this site if you let yourself do so.

4. Robot Unicorn Attack
The object of Robot Unicorn Attack is to get your unicorn as far as it can go just by running, jumping, and dashing through big stars. You will lose a lot of time trying to beat your last score, not to mention getting lost in the calming music that plays in the background of this fun game.

5. E-Tard
E-Tard is pretty much just some guy who is on a webcam for all hours of the day. You can communicate with him and he will respond. What makes E-Tard so addicting is that it can be surprisingly fascinating to keep on checking his live webcam stream to see what he's up to. My friends have spent hours with this guy.


6. Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a site where people can post information on many topics. It's the site our teachers have warned us not to use for school research, but we still can't help but check it. Even if it's a vague idea on a topic, we still want to know what it is. I myself have lost hours reading about random topics on Wikipedia!

7. Addicting Games
Addicting Games is a website that has over 1,000 games on its website. With all these games combined with a curious gaming mind, I can't help but try a whole bunch of them, and kill a lot of time while doing just that.

8. Google
Google may be “just” a search engine, but it can still be an addicting and time-sucking website. For someone who is bored and wants to kill time, Google will help you do a search on any topic you can think about on the Internet. As a result of playing around on Google, you may even find websites just like the ones listed here that will continue to consume your time.

9. Habbo Hotel
Habbo Hotel is somewhat of a social networking site, but it’s also still just a game – albeit, a massive multiplayer online game. Essentially, you create an avatar and go around visiting people's rooms. What makes Habbo Hotel so addicting is the social networking aspect of the game – you end up meeting so many new people that you just keep coming back for more.

10. Newgrounds
Newgrounds is a site full of cartoons and games that you can play. However, some of these are intended for a more mature audience (and they are sure to give you a rating on it before you play or watch) so some caution is necessary. However, you’re sure to have lots of laughs and lots of fun playing games and watching cartoons on this website.

11. Facebook
Facebook is the popular social networking site that allows you to find and keep in touch with old and new friends. This site becomes truly time-sucking though when you find yourself consumed by the games, quizzes and other random pages that Facebook provides, on top of just keeping track of what all your friends are doing.

12. Twitter
Twitter is another big time-sucking social networking site that allows you to post your thoughts to everyone. With various celebrities following this craze, you are not just limited to your friends, but you can even follow the random thoughts of your favourite stars! Stars that have jumped on this bandwagon include Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian, and many more! Soon you’ll find yourself hooked to following people like crazy, and maybe even start posting your own random tweets.

13. Tumblr
Last but not least, Tumblr is a blogging website that lets you, well, blog. For those of us interested in reading or writing blogs, this can prove to be a very addicting website.

 

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So True

Submitted by Rachelelaine on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 09:50.

Reading this, I feel as though I have no choice but to agree. Those sites definitely make the clock run faster. One moment it's the afternoon and you're stalking people on Twitter, and the next moment it's dark out and you're brain is mush. Although that sounds quite terrible, I have to say it's pretty addicting. To stop all social networking is a lot more difficult than one would think.

hahah.

Submitted by MirandaArnelle on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 15:03.

That's quite funny, thank god I'm no longer glued to my desk/chair at home. Glad to see Nexopia is getting lost.

Homework pile screaming from abandonment

Submitted by angelicapoversky on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 11:04.

This list of addictive websites is constantly changing. . . or growing. Simply thinking to yourself, "I'm going to quickly check my Facebook," is a complete lie because three seconds will turn to three hours and you get sucked into a cesspool of 9gag and ask.fm and end up on Youtube watching millions of videos of McDonald's prank calls.

Also, with the websites like honesty box, formspring, and ask.fm where people ask you anonymous questions, it is often addicting to see what people have to say about you when their incognito but it could easily become negative and mean- which I've noticed happen, which makes the Internet an upsetting and less friendly place.

Wasting Time

Submitted by MichaelFNF on Mon, 12/10/2012 - 10:43.

The Internet as a whole is a giant forum for doing meaningless tasks. Isn't it a shame that as a generation we've taken something that could easily be a medium for sharing knowledge and ideas, and made it into a vast empty space of meaningless endeavours? Most people now just see the Internet as being another source of media, when it could be so much more.

Entertaining yourself for hours.

Submitted by hpmayy on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 10:47.

I admit I can spend a whole day on YouTube searching up the most random videos with friends. For instance, the song called "It's Mango Time." Me and my friends spent hours listening to that song over and over again til' we practically memorized it. We've memorized that song more during the past five hours, than all the biology terms in our textbook. (I was lucky enough to actually pass my test) Either way, YouTube can be pretty useful for studying, especially the DNA Replication Song. It helped a lot. Weird.

Now for Tumblr. I am addicted. To scrolling. I, for one, can scroll down for hours on that website looking at pictures, gifs, and other posts just looking for something to "reblog". It consumes so much time, that by the time I start doing homework it's about 12am!

So consider me guilty of entertaining myself through the most non-active, boring ways ever.

Bullying

Submitted by jaymeemaaghop on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 11:38.

Formspring, Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. Funny how these websites are so often used and yet main areas for cyber bullying and can also be used against a person.
Even Youtube with its viewers' rude comments as well.

And to the bloggers out there;
Yeah Tumblr isn't safe anymore if you post judgmental thoughts about people and your friends/classmates know your url.

Guilty...

Submitted by jaiden-dembo on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 10:42.

I admit that I am a bit of a Tumblr addict. I remember when I first started I got bored with it within a month or so. Then all my friends joined and my world was opened up to the blogging community... What I had originally intended was to use my blog for displaying my writing and photography. Instead it turned into a place to express myself through other people's photos and writing out how I'm feeling... Kind of like an online diary. Plus you get addicted to the attention you can receive from having followers who ask you questions, it makes you feel special when people want to know about you.

There are plenty of times where I go on the internet to look something up on the internet for my homework and then somehow end up on Tumblr. Sometimes I literally cannot remember when or how I got there, and an hour as just disappeared. It can be a serious problem if you're not careful...

fb and yt

Submitted by raiiluvstea on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 18:05.

facebook and youtube and the 2 top time-consuming websites for me, but even those get boring after awhile. Thanks for giving me more sites where I can kill time :) :P

Formspring is a waste

Submitted by mermaid63 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 14:27.

Formspring is the number one timewaster. That's a shame because if you've ever read some of the things said on the website, you would agree that those people should go waste their time on a different site where they don't offend, insult, hurt, or bully people.

TvTropes?

Submitted by ILikeTwinShadow on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 23:04.

TV Tropes.

It will eat your life.

And it is glorious.

Severely missing from this list.

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