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Other studies have shown that employers may believe a person not on Facebook is a psychopath, although that's one of the most extreme conclusions.
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I stopped reading at this line -
nobody with the ability to capably employ others is daft enough to make assumptions about a person's mental health based on the websites they frequent; if they are, nobody, social networker or not, should want to become their employee.
This article seems to make a big fuss over nothing - or, perhaps I simply don't befriend addictive people. My closest friends and my family members, myself included, are all fairly rare Facebook users. At least, compared to the "average" amount of Facebook time cited by this article - which I have trouble believing, but I suppose that people really can become addicted to everything.
I use Facebook in tandem with GoodReads, because I have bookish friends who use one and not the other. Aside from the occasional "check-in" posted by another person (you can tell the world where you are and who you're with), my Facebook wall is very rarely updated. I do check it a few times a week, as I have friends who have Facebook and don't have phones - Internet is often cheaper where I live. I check my messages, sometimes I have a brief scroll through my news feed, and I log off.
This article seems like a journalist clutching at straws on a slow day. "In today's news, human beings are narcissistic and obsessive! Coming up soon, the sky is blue!"