There was a study on the amount of man-hours that got wasted on Pac-Man Google Logo--the playable version of the iconic game that the search giant replaced its home page logo with. It cost the economy a total of 4,819,352 man-hours and a whopping $120,483,800 in lost productivity
Now the page that gets clicked more is not a search page but it’s the social networking site, Facebook. People can think of not goggling but cannot sleep without having a peek on that notifications. Facebook pages are kept open 24 hours 7 days.
I was reading that Facebook has outgrown into 80billion worth. I tried to do a ‘Google’ to understand how worthy it worth. Ok “the real value” of the company is in “leveraging” all the user (our, your, my) data they’ve collected on their members. The ability to develop tools, apps and targeted advertising will allow to monetize.
Coming back to the PC-Man study, if a day distraction cost $120 million, how much would such a Facebook distraction cost ??? Math's should be simple !! we should not be thinking of word “worth”.
Everybody wants to be a star !! everybody wanted to be wanted.. come on! people even say I write this blog for recognition and appreciations… that carving has always been there hidden in everyone. Starting of the day when you get ready in front of the mirror, (or until you get married) we try to live up to that imaginary expectations. Now sitting at one place by just moving fingers if you can get that gratification through your AVATAR
, why don’t we find even more reasons to stick on than just being in touch or getting connected or sharing information. This is the fuel.
Well, that should have triggered some bees in hive.. 
(If you have better reasons to support worthiness, please do comment here.)
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