BLOGS THAT USE WORD VERIFICATION ARE SLOWLY KILLING US (and I have the numbers to prove it)

Every now and then I like to do a PSA on this troublesome issue that still plagues the blogosphere. If I can convert just one of you WVers then I’ve done my job. Hopefully my numbers will do just that. But first…

4 MEH FACTS ABOUT WV:

1-The official tech term is CAPTCHA (pronounced/ˈkæptʃə/):


2-Stands for…Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

3-It was created in the year 2000 by a team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon.

4-CAPTCHA's main usage is to protect sites from the onslaught of automated spam.

SO HOW IS WORD VERIFICATION A SILENT KILLER?

Here are my staggering stats …

Average time it takes it takes to use Word Verification = 5 sec.

Average # of blogs a blogging-person reads per day = 20

Total time spent Verifying per day = 1 min 40 sec.

- per week = 11 min. 6 sec.

-  per month = 44 min. 24 sec.

- per year = 9 hours 40 min. 8sec.

- per life (80 yrs.) = 32 days 2 hours 10 minutes 6 seconds

BOTTOM LINE: By using Word Verification you are stealing a little over 1 month from each of our lives. Time we could spend with our loved ones, exercising, creating stuff – essentially living life.

HERE'S HOW TO END WV:

AND HERE’S HOW TO SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF SOMEBODY THIS HALLOWEEN.

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