Are you a Facebook Fanatic? (Don’t forget to flush)

I found several things disturbing in an article about tweeting and other forms of social networking (or not working) in this morning’s London Free Press.

Among several other fascinating things re a recent survey Kate Dubinski wrote the following:

48 per cent of people said they check their Facebook or Twitter accounts when they wake up in the middle of the night or as soon as they wake up in the morning.

Wha...? I find so much wrong with that.

People should be sleeping at night, not trying to keep up with what Ashleigh did after downing her last Rusty Nail at Mitsy’s Sister.

How can anyone engage in crisp, important dialogue at 3 a.m.? Sorry, it’s not possible. We’ll just give or get the wrong impression about the real level of ability of Canadians. It’s impossible to design a better car, electric train or anything than the Germans at 4 a.m. Go back to bed.


["Really. Go back to bed"]

And really, if you’re that lonely, buy a teddy bear. A good one. One with affectionate-looking eyes. One that can make coffee at 9 a.m., when normal people are just waking up.

Kate D. also wrote:

Another survey found that 17 per cent of tweets and 12 per cent of other social media posts are done in the washroom or on a toilet.

Good grief, Canada!

The only thing worse than that would be to know how many are only using one hand, and what’s in the other hand.

Having read that, I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight.

But if you’re one of the late night or bathroom networkers, don’t tweet or FB me.

I’ll be watching Seinfeld reruns.

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