The myriad websites -- funny and not funny, clean and not clean, free and not free -- cut into time allotted for simple tasks such as eating, sleeping and breathing.
As you can see from the following chart, Top Internet Researchers have evaluated some of the top timewasting sites and have accurately charted the hours individuals spend online when exposed to each available distraction.
As is immediately evident, when exposed to useful, practical sites like the local library, subjects' voluntary exposure is brief. Typically, they search for desired information, obtain it, log off, and go about their days. Yet when introduced to non-informative-only websites, these same subjects begin to exhibit addictive behaviours, spending more and more time on the internet and ignoring real-world consequences or obligations in quantities directly in relation to how addictive a particular site is.
In a shocking result, note that those subjects exposed to the site known as GISHWHES have not only managed to spend a full twenty-four hours continually plugged into the internet, but have actually managed to exceed the available time in one day, squeezing out more than the twenty-four hours worth of time available.
In response to this strange bending of space/time, a cross-disciplinary study with Physicists and Mathematicians has been proposed. The results are pending.
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