Time.com hates your favorite web sites and thinks you waste too much time on the Internet.

Here’s the quick rundown of their 5 Worst Websites list:

eHarmony: “Our main beef with this online dating site is its power to cause utter despair.” It achieves this by employing huge, time consuming compatibility surveys, monthly fees, and inflated expectations.

eHarmony announced that in early 2006 it helped 90 people find love every single day. It can supposedly achieve this with its more “scientific” approach to matchmaking as opposed to the typical visual, point and click approach of other dating sites. So what happens if, after you shell out months of time, cash, and high expectations, eHarmony doesn’t deliver or simply determines you as unmatchable? Too bad, so sad.

Evite.com: “We’re only mad at Evite because we need it so much, and we know it could be so much better.” The site because needs some rework. The ads seem intrusive, you can only upload photos after the event. Music and video are out of the question.

Meez.com: Meez allows you to create 3-D animations and other “digital doodads” for sending via email messages that can be very annoying. Other similar sites, Blignee and Iconator, achieve the same thing with the same annoying factor.

MySpace: Last year Time named MySpace one of the 50 Coolest Websites of 2006, but the popular social network has lately taken a turn for the worst. “It seems the community has become infested with marketers and other opportunists who create false profiles and essentially spam other users, all under the guise of ‘making friends.’”

Second Life: While technically not a website, Time still hates Second Life since it employs the same time wasting principles of other sites. It replaces real life with… a virtual “second life”. The learning curve is steep, and “There are crazy people around every corner — disruptive types that spread graffiti and get in your way and throw you off your groove.”

Many fans of Second Life believe doing human things in a virtual world is “somehow less pathetic than, say, cooking Kaldorei spider kabobs or making magic pantaloons in World of Warcraft.” At least World of Warcraft fans know their “second life” isn’t real. The software can also be very inefficient, so you may experience lag even with a decent broadband connection.

Time only hates cause they’re not on top in Web 2.0.

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Entry was posted on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 3:54 pm under Opinion, Web2.0.

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