Distractions

I am sitting here trying to think of what to write about for my blog but keep getting distracted by surfing around the internet. I figured I might as well talk about how distracting media can be when trying to focus on work. I have the TV on and surfing around on the internet.

Media is all around me and it can have a major impact on focus. The TV is often on for background noise while working which I guess for me keeps the work from feeling too formal and isolating. It is easy to space out and get distracted on the internet with so many sites that we program into our routine for when we log on. We all have our rituals when we open the internet browser. Often it may even fall into a certain order of the sites we visit, prioritizing what we are most interested in seeing first. Which often seems to be facebook for many people. Thats a bit of a generalization but it often is near the top of the list for many people.

I am curious if anyone else gets as distracted as me through media technology, whatever it may be. The internet is at the top of my list, what about you? Any particular sites that draw your attention away from the task at hand?