I just got off of the phone with my father. We were having a long conversation about how easy it is to lose sense of time when you’re wandering around the Internet.

The thing online that always gets my dad is YouTube videos. He’ll look up one video and then see the links in the sidebar to all of the related videos. He’ll click on one link and want to follow the links on the new page. However he’ll still want to follow some of the links on the first page that he was on. Hours later he’s still following links and watching videos.

I don’t spend much time on YouTube. The thing that sucks me in is blogs. I’ll be reading a personal finance blog that talks about the pros and cons of debt consulting. I’ll click on the link there to learn more about debt consulting where I’ll start reading a blog about business debt reduction. Then I’ll get interested in the finances of small business and see if there are bloggers writing about that. Hours pass and I’m still going from blog to blog.

It’s kind of funny, though. My dad and I were on the phone for a few hours. We talked about many other things before we got around to this topic. In a way I guess that losing time online isn’t that different from losing time in a conversation with someone.

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