Flaws of Facebook and Wikipedia

These are probably pretty self-evident, but there’s always those times you go to either of these sites with a serious purpose (needing to look up an event, fact, group, whatever) and you just get so sidetracked and lost in random articles that you completely forget what you were doing.  I don’t hate either site (and spend a lot of time on both), but just so much time wasted…

As for intentional time wasting, my at times favourite is the Jesus game on Wikipedia.  The game is pretty simple and goes like this: click the random page like on the Wikipedia site.  Then try to get to the Jesus article in as few links (that are within the article) as possible.  From most articles I can do it in 4-5 clicks, I’ve come across a few that take 6.  It’s entertaining for a little while at least.

~Ian