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According to an online survey conducted by Antivirus firm, Sophos, One in seven people confessed they are logged onto Facebook permanently during the day at the office.

According to the results of the survey nearly 40 percent of Facebook users visit their accounts no more than twice a day, while almost 15 percent, or approximately one in seven, are logged onto Facebook almost permanently during their working day.

According to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at UK-based Sophos, "The results show that more than one fifth of these Facebook users are actually Facebook abusers. They’re seriously struggling to tear themselves away from the website when they should be concentrating on their jobs".

Clulely added, "So far there seems to have been a furor at every organization that has decided to block Facebook access, but there’s a real danger that if companies don’t take action, this problem could spiral further out of control" .

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David Feng at Blognation China and Kenneth Tan at Shanghaiist are talking about Facebook’s China entry. Interestingly, Facebook has bought the domain name facebook.cn (in a bid to go local), and there is another portal owned by a Chinese guy, facebook.com.cn which points to facebook.cn.

The news-piece also talks about a social-networking platform called Xiaonei.com, a portal started in 2005 which looks and feels like Facebook except for the fact that it is in Chinese. Since its inception, Xiaonei.com has grown exponentially and covers about 2,000 university colleges in China. Not only that the portal has plans for school students and corporate also.

Guess which one is original? On your left it is Xiaonei.com and on your right it is the numero-uno Facebook.

So what would Facebook do for China? Would it buy-out Xiaonei.com, would it partner with Xiaonei.com or would perhaps follow into Google’s footsteps and would go own its own? That, only time can tell but one thing is for sure, the race for best "Social networking platform" would ensure that users benefit from the competition.

Facebook has released a new checkbox in user profiles which says: looking for “networking”. What does this mean? Is Facebook trying to beat LinkedIn. Or is this just another minor update?Primarily like Jason I have been under the assumption of Facebook being a networking hub by default. How does this feature add value then I am not. I think the only thing that comes to a profile visitor’s mind when he sees a button like this is that a specific contact is quite open to new friends and networking with unknown contacts.

Sometimes we do see that there are users who ignore friend requests. This checkbox might give a clear idea who is interesting in networking and who is not.

By networking does Facebook mean Professional networking/ Social networking or Gender networking?

Can You Only Network Online and Become Popular?

Robert Scoble’s bragadocious post about his 4,600 Facebook friends brought me back to my initial opinion on social networking that it only works for you if it is supported by real face-to-face networking. When I think of the most popular folks online, all of them are also the most visible off-line, via conferences, expos, meet-ups, etc. Most, if not all, are top ranking executives at a company, or a bleeding edge entrepreneur. I am not knocking any of them; they get out what they put in.

What I am looking to dispel, though, is the myth that anyone can become popular, famous or an industry/movement influencer solely through online efforts, especially through social network like Facebook.

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