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Social networking has become quite popular in the last few years, ever since Facebook became a world-wide internet sensation. Then along came Twitter, which also became wildly popular in this generation. Many people use these sites to check out what's happening with old and new acquaintances, or to let all of the people in their life know what the latest event is. But what many people don't consider when they get hooked on social networking is how the amount of time that is spent on these sites could be affecting us all.

America is one of the worst culprits of wasting our time on social networks. The websites themselves aren't the problem; it's the amount of time that we have allowed ourselves to spend on these sites. According to Nielsen, a global media research organization, Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in 2011- equivalent to 101,000 years. And if that wasn't enough, get this: those minutes were only spent in the month of May. It is sickening to know that we spent that much time on a website at all, let alone in one month. What could we have done with those CCyears"? We could have improved America as a whole. If we had all just devoted that time to helping others or

finding solutions to some of our many growing problems, America could have been an altogether better nation in one month. Instead, we sat on computers complaining to the world about stupid things and telling everyone what we did that day, which usually wasn't anything

Sure, there are plenty of groups and pages for charities and foundations on Facebook, and that's great. But how many of those who cclike" those pages actually do anything about it? All we do is click the thumbs up button and BAM we think we're cccharitable." It means absolutely nothing. How about instead of CCliking" the page for a

charity, you actually go out and volunteer at the local homeless shelter? What if you spent half of the time you would normally spend on Facebook helping people who need it? Or maybe you could make real friends instead of virtual ones. You might even try spending a little more time with your family. The point is, we are investing too much time in social networking when we should be spending it living. When is this goin~ to stop? Time is too precious to waste on a screen. Log off and live.

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Campus Star: Is Social Networking a pastime or waste of time?