Social Networking Sites!!

A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
Social networking sites have become a way for a life for my generation. We are constantly checking our pages and chatting to friends on it. We even play games on it...e.g. Farmville on face book which I am completely obsessed with at the moment. To me the craze of social networking sites came out of no where, I remember hearing about bebo and not having a clue about it. When I first joined it I was totally confused but soon got the hang of it and even quicker got addicted. It is such an easy way for friends to keep in touch and especially for students who may not have credit. Every weekend most girls take out cameras and upload their pictures of the night. I have no moved on form bebo and joined Face book and it seems to be more “mature”. I much prefer the features on face books and feel it is more users friendly. We add friends we have met once and i have seen people who have 700 “friends” on face book. It is all a bit crazy.
One negative aspect to this explosion of social networking sites is addiction. Addiction to these websites has become increasingly worrying. Last week I read an article about a woman who had her children taken of her as she had neglected them. She was spending up to twelve hours a day on face book and other social networking sites. In Japan they are limiting the amount of time that people can game as people were dying from not eating and sleeping. There is even been rehabilitation clinics set up for people addicted to the internet. Should the government limit our time on these sites? Will be loose all out social skills by sitting using face book al day? Another negative aspect is how much time is lost in businesses due to employees being on social networking sites instead of doing work; many companies have taken the action and banned these sites from the workplace.