[IC4RUS]

Yeah, I concede that it's greatly surpassed in terms of volume. And that bubble probably wasn't the correct term.

However, my comment was more arguing against what you said with the context in a previous comment:

"What's so great about the web, that makes you say it is one of mankind's greatest inventions?"

-I don't believe that an invention being used largely for unhelpful uses makes the (still large) amount of benefit any smaller. So, even if educational use is dwarfed by facebook, it's is still a wonderful tool for many.

[twtw]

That's a reasonable perspective.

I disagree, however, because my opinion is that the trillions of hours spent are not simply unhelpful (i.e. neutral) but actually damaging. My calculation is therefore that the net impact of the web is maybe negative, because the positives are swamped by the greater volume of negatives.