Sly: The website Hardlywork.in converts your Facebook newsfeed into what appears to onlookers to be an excel spreadsheet
But a website developed by a sly Ivy League university student is attempting to change all that for good - or for bad, depending on which side of the office you may be sitting.
The ingenious site, named Hardlywork.in, automatically converts your Facebook news feed into an excel spreadsheet, so procrastinating at work appears to onlookers like dedicated number-crunching. Users can instantly see what their friends are up to on Facebook, with updates from friends appearing as new spreadsheet rows.
Pictures and videos uploaded can be viewed by hovering over the entries and users can interact, 'liking' the updates with a simple click on the spreadsheet.
The page, with its intentionally corporate look, is slyly titled 'daily cash reconciliation' so wasting time appears to nosy onlookers as diligent financial work.
The site was created by Yale computer science major Bay Gross, 20, after a friend doing a government internship told him she had to wait until after work to read his Facebook updates.
Gross launched the site on Sunday after spending just 15 hours developing it. It has been immensely well received since its launch, receiving 10,000 unique visitors per day.
The website runs under the following description: 'Long hours at the new summer job? Feeling unprofessional when you check your Facebook profile at the office?
'Well there's nothing more professional than a nice spreadsheet. Sign in with Facebook below, and see your news feed rendered into an innocuous corporate form.'
Since the site has launched, Gross told the Huffington Post his friend on the government internship now uses the site - as do all the other interns she works with.
'Mission accomplished,' he wrote.
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