There are 120 million blogs on the Internet. 119,999,000 of those have long been abandoned, or will soon be so, and the rest are funded by right-wing think-tanks or corporations!

That blogging and social networking take up excessive amounts of time is a surprise to only the uninitiated. It’s been a truism, since the early days of computing, that computers are a time-sink! Just about anything you do with computers will end up sucking endless amounts of time.

And, as far as socialogging (my own, extempore, coinage for blogging, social networking, and anything else which involves recording your self for public view) is concerned, it thrives–for now–on people’s inability to comprehend statistics! Analogous to the lottery being a tax on those who can’t comprehend math, socialogging is a tax on the many who think they understand the Internet.