Time Wasters

For all its dangers, faults, and vapid time-wasters, the Internet's also created a vast network of independent voices belonging to no club and perfectly willing -- nay, eager -- to join on this issue. ❋ Andrew Reinbach (2011)

A friend pointed me to WWWord -- "a home for readers, writers, illiterates, browsers, time-wasters, mavens, and bores -- and all who use, abuse, love and hate the English language." ❋ Gretchen Rubin (2011)

YouTube and other online video sources are time-wasters more than sources of entertainment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Next is, admittedly, one of the show's better time-wasters: a 6 Degrees of DWTS linking the stars. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I suspect that LinkedIn has as many time-wasters, bullshitters and office politicians as other places, including The New York Times. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)

As a result, I lose half of my day dealing with emails from time-wasters who have nothing to offer to me or to my company. ❋ Richard Laermer (2010)

Matt Richtel writing in the New York Times not too long ago said, Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. ❋ John M. Eger (2011)

None of the commenters involved have any political or accounting experience; in fact, the majority of them are time-wasters of a colorful variety. ❋ Pablo Andreu (2011)

But this brings me back to my original point; quite often genuine victims such as the family you describe, are lost in a system full of attention-seekers, time-wasters and those who take no responsibility for their own actions. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

Lots of time-wasters in there, to be sure, but some extremely helpful programs as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Refusing to cooperate with time-wasters is completely rational. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And they're time-wasters, and patience-wasters, and they're expensive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands. ❋ Alan Bradley (2011)

Besides discontent, we had to guard our homes against time-wasters. ❋ Unknown (2008)