Is Facebook Sucking Up Your Life?

No, I don’t think so, I think the most correct way to put might be facebook could very well be sucking up the time you spend on the Internet.

According to its 2010 “What Americans Do Online” report, Nielsenarticle found that Americans spend 22.7 percent of Internet time on social networks. That’s up 43 percent from last year.

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Social networking continues to displace other Internet activities, topping the troika of most popular pursuits. “Despite the almost unlimited nature of what you can do on the Web, 40 percent of U.S. online time is spent on just three activities — social networking, playing games (10.2 percent), and e-mailing (8.3 percent), leaving a whole lot of other sectors fighting for a declining share of the online pie,” Nielsen analyst Dave Martin said in a statement.

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Also, there is another factor to consider where e-mail is concerned. Americans of all ages continue to adopt social networking, but those 50 and older are joining at double the rate of the under-18 crowd. E-mailing your former high school friends and/or the grand kids through Facebook may be more efficient than logging on to a dedicated e-mail account, especially since everybody’s hanging out on Facebook anyway.

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