Sunday, October 14, 2007

Oh Dear,Oh Dear

What is becoming of our nation?

Yesterday's Times reports that


British internet users spent an average of 5.8 hours a month - about a 11 minutes a day - on such sites, in comparison with their nearest rivals the Germans, who spent 3.1 hours a month (6 minutes a day), according to research.
The French, Spanish, and Italians all spend less than four minutes a day making 'friend requests' and 'poking' one another - the social networking equivalent of saying hello, the figures, from comScore, suggest.
More than three in four regular internet users in Britain - just under 25 million people - are now a member of a social networking site, and make an average of 23.3 visits to their 'profile page' a month.


Two questions.

1.Why are people so hooked on this phenonoma?-What has happened to old fashioned social interaction such as ......conversation

2.Why are we Brits even more hooked on it than the continentals?

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