According to a recent survey on the workplace in America, executives spend two hours a day surfing the Internet at work.
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According to a recent survey on the workplace in America, executives spend two hours a day surfing the Internet at work. When it comes to wasting time in organisations, the Net beats coffee breaks and chatting to co-workers. Some companies are also experimenting with e-breaks, the logic being that if they create a time slot for employees to surf, they8217;ll stick to the allotted time and work the rest of the day.
However, once you8217;ve checked four different e-mail accounts, chatted a little online, downloaded some music on to your I-pod, and surfed a bit, I8217;ll bet a lot more than two hours have flown by. However, people in the media don8217;t really count time spent on the Internet as wasteful. It8217;s creatively wasteful. After all, they could always stumble upon some interesting information.
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More than surfing the Internet or Instant Messenger, I think serious time is spent on social networking sites that are addictive but are a colossal waste of time. So far I mistakenly believed sites like Orkut were for college kids looking to flirt online. Till a friend introduced me to Facebook. For the uninitiated, this is a site where you can create your own space and, in short, have a separate social life 8212; on the Net. You can upload pictures, videos and create groups with school, college and work friends. In this shrinking digital world, sites like this suddenly put you in touch with people you haven8217;t seen in decades. Though it can be fascinating, keeping up with the world is also fatiguing. I find myself compelled to change my home page daily and I spend hours updating my profile. Suddenly, I find myself chatting to ex-classmates I barely spoke to while at school. Finally I swore off it, but my waning interest perked up again when I saw Chelsea Clinton8217;s name on a friend8217;s list of friends. Whoever talked about six degrees of separation didn8217;t anticipate the Internet.
Now, I8217;ve restricted myself to logging on to Facebook just once daily. But I8217;m still angling for an invitation to the Rolls Royce of socialising sites 8212; asmallworld.com 8212; that8217;s a super exclusive network of international celebrities like Ivana Trump and Paris Hilton. Members here have to be invited. If you are found indulging in the 8216;virtual pestering8217; of another member, you8217;re ruthlessly blocked off. Alas, till one of my contacts hits it big enough to become worthy of a smallworld membership, Facebook will have to do.
