Pew Internet and American Life Project, a nonprofit research group in Washington says more and more people are reporting Internet overload from too many hours spent at social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
CNN has a great interview with John Horrigan, the project's associate director of research. It's here. Horrigan offered this advice for tuning it out:
What I think the message is with all these new tools -- Twitter, for instance -- is that Twitter is a great way to put yourself out there. It also could be a tool for managing your connectivity.
"You might start to use your Facebook page or your Twitter account as a means to say, "Hey guys, I'm shutting down for a while, so don't worry about me if I don't respond to you immediately."
So I think a challenge for people going forward is to see these tools as tools, meaning you can use them to identify yourself as being offline at a particular moment, and not see them as perpetual obligations to be available at all times to all people."
As social networking moves from leisure-time activity to integral part of the normal American workday, it remains to be seen how employees will manage time spent at the desk, on the road and online...
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