* Posts by Chris

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Profs: Facebook, Twitter users are lazy, thick, amoral

Chris

What could be..

I have a Facebook, a Twitter and I like beer far too much. So as someone who had a degree and a high paid career it leads me to wonder what could have been if only I'd never joined a social networking websites. Prehaps I'd be as cool as Vision Aforethought!

From experience in business and socially I find that anyone who has the time to make and write 7 observations about their colleges who use Facebook and Twitter are:

1. Lacking in social skills that would be common prior to online communications

2. Exceptionally poor at returning communications of any sort

3. Socially short term. IE, will arrive for an event only to 'move on' later to another 'event' perhaps itself triggered by Facebook, Twitter etc.

4. Unfocused in their work, significantly reducing their productivity

5. Obsessed with their online status and number of friends or followers

6. Trying to impress 'someone'. Thing is, who?

7. Generally unskilled (A Manager). None of the people I know who are excellent at something (music, coding, rowing, other aspects of life) have time to use such services that are a drain on personal productivity and the physical activities that are good for ones health and mental wellbeing.