Comments about ‘Social networking affects work/life balance’

Social networking is a perpetual lie and why people waste so much time with it is incomprehensible. The old saying that truth is short and simple, why do people waste so much time to fabricate and perpetuate a fiction of themselves and other misinformation and lies others write? Is life and a job that boring that it consumes so much time to accomplish nothing?

At some point employers will put the clamps on internet access for all its employees. If companies want to preserve their life's dream of building a business they must stop on the job twittering, facebook, you tube, and fictitious socializing. Of course the companies making money from fictitious social circles will have a different opinion. OJT socializing is not a right of workers, however how much they are paid to do a job is their right to demand compensation for.

Has the US become so dysfunctional that we now live in a make-believe world where no one can no longer distinguish fact and fiction in friendship or love? I think a lot of it is adult toys to pretend to have a life.

There is a theory that facebook/twitter/social networking was one of the major causes of the "Great Recession."

In the past 5 years US companies have lost literally billions of man-hours to employees social networking while on the clock. All that lost productivity translates into billions of dollars taken out of the economy.

Just think how much more we could accomplish if social networking didn't exist.

'Just think how much more we could accomplish if social networking didn't exist.' - DeltaFoxtrot | 10:01 a.m. Jan. 3, 2012

Possible. But this is still, just theory. The same thing could be said of say, listening to music, reading a book, or...

praying.

Until there is a study done, this is projection. Not based on FACTUAL work hours lost.

As:

*'Mormon youths support President Packer through Facebook' - By Scott Taylor, Deseret News - 10/11/10

'SALT LAKE CITY Thousands of Mormon youths and their Facebook friends are using social networks to show support for an LDS Church apostle and his recent general conference remarks.'

Some of the very same persons who CONDEM social networking...

us them to their advantage.