The Punch: Penbo on Facebook

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'As someone who is being dragged reluctantly into the world of social media, the most depressing aspect is how much time it seems to require. This more than anything makes it no real fun at all. The irony of these sites is that they are all ostensibly meant to make staying in touch easier and to free us up to give us more time, but instead steal time away from us. It’s long been my personal theory that the amount of time people spend at work on social media sites was an unheralded but significant contributor to the global financial crisis, particularly in the white collar industries where some workers seem to spend half their day buggerising around messaging the world. Life’s too short to spend it in cyberspace.'