To think you can't count "Facebook" as a hobby?

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Just that.

I have a look on my newsfeed a couple of times during the day if I'm bored at work. But can't imagine what there is to do there for hours each day.

Do people count it as a hobby? As in they include it in bios or on forms? Really?

Si is it on peoples' CVs now?

So not Si!

But I can count Candy Crush as a hobby, right?

I'm not sure if it counts as a hobby or not? I've never said it was before... but thinking about it now, I suppose it might be?

If watching TV counts as a hobby, then I guess going on Facebook would count to?

Well I work with people whose job it is to sit on Facebook all day long - and they get paid really well to do so.

Unless it's in that context it should never go on a CV though....

Well watching TV's not really a hobby either in my mind - it's usually what you do when you've nothing to do.

Not so much a hobby, as a way of life, maybe

Well I work with people whose job it is to sit on Facebook all day long

Would you be able to tell us what that job is? Just being nosy!

i am not sure i would be tempted to employ someone who had listed it on a cv.

Peanate Since the Facebook job is taken, is there a job I can apply for where you sit on mumsnet all day long?

Working for Mumsnet Vikki!

Of course Kiki! I'll get my CV ready...

I Facebook a lot, but then I have a makeup blog and it's like networking for me. The beauty community on there is HUGE and full of info and opportunity

In which case reading isn't a hobby either.

My Facebook is more for interest groups to do with my hobby when I can't be out doing it. I certainly wouldn't call Facebook a hobby in itself.

Who says it's a hobby? If someone put that on their CV under hobbies or interests I'd think that was really lame.

I get to Facebook and tweet for work (marketing) - not all day, mind you!

It's the new equivalent of people who used to list 'motoring' on their CVs / dating profiles (which I would always take to mean 'drives to work'. Cos if you liked cars you'd say 'cars' or 'restoring cars' or whatever)

It's not a hobby as such but it is a spare time activity for me. There is a lot to do on Facebook. I use it to keep in touch with old friends, make new friends, network, play games, share photos, catch up on the news, enter competitions and join pages or groups related to my hobbies. I've just started a Theory of Organic gardening course and was pleasantly surprised to find that although I considered myself a novice I knew a bit about a lot of the topics they were discussing, such as GMOs, Monsanto, the badger cull and Neonicotinoid insecticides, due to following relevant pages on Facebook, it really helped break the ice.

I wouldn't put Facebook as an interest on a CV but I might put computers or socialising with friends.

Mumsnetting's okay as a hobby though.

Lady - I agree with you .

It depends..if it's on a form/CV/bio type thing then it sounds a bit sad however if people want to consider it a hobby in their heads then that's fine!

My job is social media so I get paid to be on fb all day. As a result I never go on it in my leisure time!