Get off Facebook and get a life.

[Callisto]

According to psychologist Dr Aric Sigman too much time spent on 'social' networking sites 'could alter the way genes work, upset immune responses, hormone levels, and the function of arteries, and influence mental performance.'

Seems obvious to me and I've never really understood the appeal of living one's life in virtual reality.

Article here: uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090220/tuk-get-off-facebook-and-get-a-life-dba1618.html

agree! Don't really get facebook, hardly ever bother with it (hence have an embarrassingly low number of "friends" on there as always forget to click to accept them..) People i want to contact i do anyway by txt/email/phone/RL whatever..

oh come on. It's just another form of communication. People have always been suspicious of new forms of communication. Probably since someone came up with printed language and someone else complained that everyone would stop talking to each other.

how is txt or email any different to facebook?

...and I've never really understood the appeal of living one's life in virtual reality.

Hmmm ... isn't that 99% of MNers

I wonder if it's because of a more seditary way of life, not the actual sites.

good riposte to Sigman here by the dependable and lovely Ben Goldacre, who argues quite convincingly that Sigman's "research" is complete toss.