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Webworker Daily has a very nice post regarding the double edged sword of Web 2.0, original research for which was carried out by Clearswift. Our lives are now filled with shiny distractions in the form of Youtube (for the video viewers), Flickr (for the photo addicts), Facebook and MySpace (for the young aspiring daters and people trying to stay in touch), Digg (for the geeks) and what not. So no matter who you are and what your taste is Web2.0 has something in store to make you a lazy and unproductive fellow. The key findings of the research are:

• 43% of office workers access social media sites from their work computers several times a day.
• 51% spend an hour or more a week on the sites; 13% spend five hours or more.
• 46% have discussed work-related issues on social media sites.
• 46% regularly access Wikipedia during work hours.
• 50% believe they have a right to use work computers for personal internet access

If you have read through the entire post, you sure are one of us. Do check out lifehacker to know how to become productively lazy.