Social Search Degrades Productivity
December 24, 2009
The article “Social Networking Sites a Drag on Productivity” struck me as one of those obvious professional journalist write ups. I did find the data in the article potentially useful. I think most of the social network hype is the shock wave of the present economic crisis. Let’s face it. Social networking for professionals often means a job hunt or a search-and-capture campaign to land a contract for services. In the personal realm, most of the social networking is an extension of normal human interaction. I think I know what that means for an old timer like me: making it to the doctor without driving into a culvert. For the younger set, I think there may be more frisky goals.
For me the key passage in this write up was:
“Close to 12.5% of productivity of human resource in corporate sector is misappropriated each day since a vast majority of them while away their time accessing social networking sites during office hours,” industry body Assocham said in a survey. Almost each day, on an average, a corporate employee spends an hour, glued to various social networking sites such as Orkut, Facebook, Myspace “for romancing or otherwise driving some satisfaction out of it,” the chamber said.
The time spent on Facebook and similar sites may be fun or rewarding in some specific way. I pay someone to be me on Twitter and other social sites. I wonder who I am. I suppose I could look but that would not be particularly productive in my opinion.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 23, 2009
Oyez, oyez, Bureau of Labor Statistics, I was not paid to write this short item. I have to be productive; otherwise, this goose would not eat. In fact, another of those goose eating holidays is approaching. Scary. Post that on Facebook.
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