January 9, 2010
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How much productivity is being lost to Jersey Shore? #Meta-enabling
Someone else uses meta-enabling to describe the Internet’s/media’s analysis of The Jersey Shore. Sick. #googlealerts.
Reblogged below:
I’m trying to calculate how much time I’ve spent discussing Jersey Shore, explaining it to people who haven’t seen it yet (I think New Year’s took care of that), making up nick names, working the phrases “the situation” and “the equation” into conversation, stifling laughter when aforementioned phrases are used in a workplace setting….
Even with the break (my work’s closed xmas-new year’s), there’s still been a lot of daylight devoted to Jersey Shore on Facebook, on Twitter, on gchat, on tumblr. The NY Times wrote several articles on it…I missed a front page newsclip for work because the Times had another write-up of Jersey Shore!
I’m seriously curious as to the hours we’re spending watching and rehashing and analyzing and critiquing and meta-enabling Jersey Shore. What work isn’t being done? What is the cost to the economy? How many minutes is it? Not a freakonomics pseudoscience way, because I could do that, but some sort of Nate Silver shit: the real cost to American businesses of our collective obsession with Jersey Shore.
Or maybe I should just stop screwing around at work…
