Okay so, I’m taking a stand. Find me on the stripped down version: http://www.twitter.com/afflictedyard. The group and Fan page will remain up but I think its time to escape the blue vortex.
Okay so, I’m taking a stand. Find me on the stripped down version: http://www.twitter.com/afflictedyard. The group and Fan page will remain up but I think its time to escape the blue vortex.
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July 28, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Kurt Stephen
The tension between online relationships and face-to-face interactions, the pull of seeing messages in your inbox and catching up with friends from the past both near and far – facebook is almost like a living magazine. Is it a waist of time or is it the start of people reconnecting with each other, Like the Beatles song says, “…all we need is love”.
Long term I think the connections need to become face-to-face or otherwise they will fade and the good ones will become pen-pals, and for most beyond the normal fun of something new, facebook will eventually will fade. As much fun as it is, human beings are wired for face-to-face interaction where all 5 senses are able to do what they do naturally…
For now I think people are very excited as am I to catch up with friends new and old and some added by the way…
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Is Facebook a Waste of Time?
Posted by Nick O’Neill on September 19th, 2007 10:02 AM
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Jeffery Zeldman seems to think so. He thinks that Facebook is just another way for blowing “off work you should be doing.” I think he may be partially right. I have spent so much time in the past week playing addictive games on Facebook, that productivity has decreased significantly. I have been working long hours but much of that is due to the fact that so many hours have been wasted on Facebook.
While Facebook is probably the best social network for maintaining relationships, I am starting to see a value behind a site like LinkedIn. Holding true to the KISS model (keep it simple stupid), LinkedIn provides me with little distraction items. On the other hand, I log in to Facebook and am immediately sucked in by my hundreds of friends who are constantly updating their profiles. Then to get a break from my quick update on friendly news, I click on one of the games that I have installed on my account.
What’s funny though is that most of the time people seem to be spending on Facebook (let alone the internet) are on tools that allow them to waste time. Perhaps this is why Facebook will continue to be successful. Are you spending most of your time on Facebook on addictive games or are you actually being productive?
Facebook time-wasters could cost $5 billion a year
By Dina Rosendorff
Herald Sun – August 20, 2007 07:00am
* Facebook could cost employers $5bn per year
* Risk of opening businesses to cyber criminals
* Related: Islamic group’s YouTube propaganda
FACEBOOK, the latest global social networking craze, could cost employers up to $5 billion a year in productivity.
The rise of the “underground intranet” in workplaces has resulted in more time-wasting by employees.
It could also open businesses to cyber criminals and legal liability, analysis by internet security firm SurfControl Technology says.
The data found if one employee spent an hour a day of company time on Facebook, it could cost their employer more than $6200 a year.
Projected across the 800,000 businesses with one or more employees in Australia, this one wasted hour a day equalled productivity losses of more than $5 billion a year.
100 joining per hour
There are more than 230,000 Facebook users across the country, with reportedly more than 100 Australians joining the phenomenon each hour.
With many users logging on during work hours, productivity loss was not the only drawback, SurfControl chairman Richard Cullen said.
By ANDREW LAVALLEE
[nowides]
As recent graduates, several of Hung Truong’s classmates will be headed for typical next steps in their technology careers: working as programmers or pursuing master’s degrees in computer science.
But the 23-year-old, who received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico, instead plans to study the growth of social-networking sites like Facebook and why unpaid volunteers spend time fixing incorrect Wikipedia entries. He enrolls this fall in a new graduate program in social computing at the University of Michigan.
Michigan’s program clinched his decision to attend that school. Social computing “has more of a focus on real-life applications, whereas [computer science] is very broad and more ambiguous,” he said. “I do think there’s a growing interest from students, myself included, and the universities seem to be responding to that.”
After years of worrying about how much time freshmen spend on Facebook, schools are incorporating the study of social networking, online communities and user-contributed content into new curricula on social computing. The moves, like other academic expansions into fields like videogame design, are part of an effort to keep technology studies relevant to students’ lives – and to tap subjects with entrepreneurial momentum. Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are among the tech companies that have invested in schools’ social computing programs.