The Best Websites for At-Work Procrastination
Originally, the computer was thought to be an amazing addition to the workplace because it would make workers so efficient, the typical workday would shrink. The hours may have not become shorter, but at times an employee may feel like he or she has plenty of time to fill with non work-related activity. Luckily, the same computer that makes your work complete so quickly also provides websites with humorous, entertaining, and sometimes insightful information with which to procrastinate. Here are the best websites for at-work procrastination.
If you have not created a Facebook page by now, rectify this immediately. The internet's most popular tool for procrastination, Facebook does more than simply provide you with the means to spend time documenting your life or downloading a fun app. Facebook brings friends and family closer by keeping you in better touch with long-distance acquaintances. Your out-of-state cousins will post the picture of their new baby for you to see. Your college roommate will announce the great news about his or her new job. Facebook can help you while away the minutes at your job, but also it will help you keep in touch with everyone you have been meaning to call.
Cracked
A repository for some of the funniest articles on the internet, cracked.com is a nearly infinite smorgasbord of hilarious lists referencing pop culture most anyone can relate to. Discover all the plot holes in your favorite childhood films. See which comic book heroes have completely changed over the course of sixty years. There are even articles about friendship and marriage that balance the emotive with the humorous. At the end of each entertaining article, there is a list of other similar articles you can click on to continue your procrastination, which helps to melt time off the clock.
New Shiny Object
Sometimes the hardest thing about finding good procrastination websites is remembering which ones you have loved in the past. New Shiny Object is an attempt to catalog some of the best that the internet has to offer for procrastinators, and there is a tag library that includes categories such as "time suck," "stuff you can buy," and "for the smartypants." Games, videos, and blogs are all included in this master of lists.
F My Life
The title of this website is a reference to the film "Superbad," from a scene in which a convenience store worker realizes he has no choice but to clean up a high school student's disgusting mess and utters these memorable words. In that spirit, fmylife.com is a collection of real-world submissions of woe and whining about moments that happened to them that really sucked. It is incredible how much time you will realize you have lost from your day when you finally click away from this site.
College Humor and Funny Or Die
Tapping into the wealth of casual procrastinators on the web, both of the websites collegehumor.com and funnyordie.com create content to amuse and attract visitors. Videos are produced of hilarious, often gutter-level humor, skits that quickly become viral hits. Youtube can be hit-or-miss for someone looking for a quick laugh, but sites like College Humor and Funny or Die are very exclusive about content, and Funny Or Die even uses a public rating system to allow potential procrastinators to search for videos that are recommended.
There are a plethora of amazing websites featuring artists, articles, videos and rants to entertain you during the workday. But, if none of these options are intriguing enough for you, sometimes the best procrastination is creating a website of your own.
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