The Internet is for . . .

What is the Internet for?  Well if you believe the common perception as demonstrated by the video you would say the Internet is comprised mostly of porn and that the remaining uses would account for a fraction of the overall content.

You might believe that but it's not true.  Porn on the Internet actually accounts for 1% of the content [this figure is taken from the US Government survey in 2006.  Of the remaining 99% 29% is genuine content and the other 70% is spam.  The only logical conclusion is that the Internet is for spam.  That in itself makes you wonder what this says about us as a collective conscious.  Of that spam I would believe a large part would be scams and cons intended to take money from you, the remainder simply being useless pointless content.

I have a problem with procrastination and I don't think I am alone in this, you only have to speak to a few people and you'll soon find that almost everyone does.  Maybe these figures dividing the content of the Internet could in theory be turned back on us, maybe 70% of our time is spent procrastinating and doing things that are basically a waste of time.  29% of our time spent doing something worthwhile and the remaining 1% spent having sex.

There are probably a few people out there immediately jumping in with a defence to say they have more sex than that, well I would ask you, "Are you sure?".  In a post I made a while ago about my life in numbers I asked people how exciting their lives were and broke down my life into figures, if we do a little Maths here we can have a quick glance:

Let's say you live to the age of 100 [I say that cause its the easiest figure to work with].  1% of that life would mean you spent 1 solid year having sex, 29 years doing something worthwhile and 70 years wasting time.

1 year amounts to 8,766 hours.  With 100 years of life, each year having 365.25 days you live 36,525 days, divide 8,766 hours by that figure and you get 0.24 exactly.  That means you spend 14 minutes and 24 seconds having sex every single day of your life if you have sex 1% of the the total time you lived.  Take out the childhood where one would hope you weren't having sex, that daily time period slowly increases.  I doubt there are many people who would have sex every single day of their life without fail through sickness and injury.  It is entirely reasonable to accept that we spend 1% of our lives having sex.

What about the others?  29% doing something practical and 70% doing useless time wasting crap.  I could easily accept that to be true without even doing the maths to figure it out.  Read the post I linked above about how much you have actually "lived" and if anything you would probably wonder if you have even made it anywhere near 29%