everything is designed to keep you busy

While updating some of the links on my blog, and thinking: which websites do I visit often? - I realized: the internet is designed in such a way that, whatever need or preference you have, there is a website/service to suit it - and this will keep you busy for a long time. It simply takes your time! I'll talk a little about the sites that tend to consume my time...

• Once upon a time, there was ringo, and you could see a lot of pictures, comment on them, update pictures, etc - lots of time eaten up and spent in watching others' pics. Of course, the ones that have and use myspace, that's even a bigger thing, with all that you want to have online! - it's your space!
• Then, facebook emerged, and.... I like it! And you can write notes, update status, put pics/video/links on, play games, write on others' walls, comment on pictures, view pics, add some quizzes, chat, etc - some things of which are useful, yet somehow, your time/my time is eaten up by yet another thing....
  
• Emails - Of course, gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, and all kinds of other free mail, necessary for communication, file sending, etc. Can you believe that there was a time when the storage space was an issue, and Yahoo! Mail was the first free email website that decided they will give 1GB storage space for its subscribers? And then, gmail followed, and the others... and now the storage space or sometimes even the size of the emails do not matter anymore...
• blogging - or having your own free website - once upon a time you had to pay for a website, and you had to know what to write/how to write, html at least - nowadays you have dozens of free platforms(like the wordpress, blogspot, etc.) with the possibility of writing and puting any kind of content online!
  
• multimedia and videos - youtube, google video, and other websites online where you can find, download, post and comment on video clips or even videos/movies/music videos - a whole world in itself, from watching what others say/have to say/do, to posting video comments and even using/posting copyrighted content.
• travelling - everyone has to travel from time to time, so in Europe there is a continually growing set of cheap flights carriers, like easyjet, ryan air, wizzair, etc, besides the major national or international carriers. Of course, there are also these.... cheap flights "scanners" or aggregators: instead of visiting the cheap flights carrier itself, you enter your destination and departure city and they "scan" the existing flights for you.... - skyscanner, travel supermarket, cheap flights, flights direct, etc. Sorry, there are many many other links, especially to overseas/outside of Europe destinations, but I didn't encounter them yet...
• Online shopping - wanna buy anything? Try ebay, amazon, or the many online stores that are out there(you can buy everything like food, clothes, electrical items, switches and sockets, etc). Once upon a time, everyone was suspicious about the quality or "newness" of the items, the means of payment, etc - nowadays, everyone just buys whatever he wants. You want to pay less for something you see in the store and want to have? Bid it on ebay or other online auction websites. The payment is thru secure gateways(like paypal).
• News? Subscribe online either free or by a monthly payment to big news sites like bbc news, telegraph, sky news, daily mail, independent, mirror, etc. You want to see the latest business/sports/breaking news online - as in watch them? No problem - just visit the website of the desired news agency, and watch the news!

And so many other websites that are out there, ready to get your attention and your time. Or maybe you don't really know the website address for the preference you have: no problem, google it! Or search for it online on ask, yahoo, live, etc! There is a "search engine warfare" going on, besides all the other niche warfares online....
I'm sorry to bore you all with this long list of obvious-by-now websites, that we all use, but my point is: it's all designed to take your time, to get you busy, occupied.... - though they may be(and most are) useful. What is then the most important things that we need to take care of? Is it just these online things? The networks we belong to and the blogs we write on?