Just got accepted for the Real Time beta program for Google Analytics and wow very impressive firstly and is going to be very handy to help webmasters to provide much more relevant information / track where our traffic is coming from.. I must admit i can see this as a bad thing also.. personally i can see myself monitoring these stats much more than i should therefor losing time actually working on projects.
Just started using Real Time stats as well. From now on, I will have a dedicated screen streaming Real Time Stats all day long!
LMAFO... years ago i did the same.. just spent too much time viewing stats rather than getting work done... but this real-time stuff is going to be a good few notches up and i am sure will effect sites in terms of new content etc.. Nothing wrong with it.. comes down to will power i guess