Young Aussies Addicted to Social Networks

"A growing number of young Australians are becoming addicted to online social networks, according to a new study.

Naked Communications digital strategist and recent Monash University graduate, Julian Cole, uncovered the trend as part of his research into the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

"For many moderate to heavy users, checking their MySpace or Facebook account has become an automatic and compulsive behaviour, with some participants reporting they log on up to twenty times a day," Mr Cole said."

begins an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Excuse me, but tell us something we don't know, please!!

We've been using Integard from the Government's Netalert website to limit ET's online time during exam study but it's not altogether successful. He does sneak onto my PC when I'm out of sight just to get an update! I started a Facebook account a couple of months ago as an experiment to see if I would become 'addicted' but am unfortunately so out of my mind busy I'm not getting a chance to get in there and do any networking!