What if you had to pay a dollar for every hour you spent on Facebook?

At times it seems like Facebook isn’t actually a social network, it’s a black hole that sucks you in and makes you waste hours browsing through completely unimportant crap when you should be doing something else. That’s why there are so many apps and browser plug-ins out there designed specifically to prevent you from wasting time on Facebook. However, a new plug-in known as Timewaste Timer may be the most unique, as it charges you for every hour you spend on Facebook. 

Have you ever been regretting spending too much time on social networks, where you only logged in for a second to find out when your friend’s birthday was? Apparently many people have, as there are a myriad of services offering to block all the ‘distraction URLs’ in your browser, or tracking exactly how much time you spend there. A newcomer in this family of anti-distraction tools is Timewaste Timer, a Chrome plugin and service that will take $1 from you every time you spend more than an hour on Facebook per day. All you need to do is install the extension and put $20 on a virtual deposit account. The product was put together in a couple of weeks, but it could be the basis of a much more sophisticated service, the Timer’s author Mike Ushakov told TNW. “A number of my friends advised me to just send all the money that we make on the project to the charity,” Ushakov said. “But instead we decided that we ourselves are the best charity for this case, as we are going to build more products to address the problem of over-consuming the digital content.