25 things nobody wants to know
Monday, February 23, 2009 (9:57 PM)
this came really late. at least very late since the first time this silly thing started circulating, but the fact that it still is circulating prompted me to write something about it.
of course i'm not condemning people who wrote them but some statistics on the papers some time ago produced really shocking figures. since the 25 things started, millions of junk data have been circulating the internet. the amount of consumed bandwidth is quite staggering. on top of that, the amount of time spent crafting the 25 things was estimated to have wasted over 800,000 hours of productivity time assuming each person takes 10 minutes to complete it. and that's if i didn't remember the figures wrongly.
but targetting that alone is sillier because i believe people spend a lot more time crafting their blog entries than this one-time junk on facebook. and more often than not, blogs have a lot more data than the 25 things about oneself. and more often than not, blog entries are complete passages rather than short sentences.
truth be told, i don't really read them. and truth be told, i don't think i have that many things to write about myself that people want to know. interestingly, this 25 things thing made me realise, i'm not so interesting after all.
then again, i have more than 25 entries in this blog alone. that amounts to a good amount of time wasted on practising my writing skills and satisfying this insatiable display of narcissism. and now you've wasted a good amount of time reading this.
get back to work!