Radio Reporter Misses Live Broadcast Because of Facebook

by Lee Bains, posted Oct 10th 2008 at 3:04PM

It should be clear from recent reports regarding Facebook that folks are enchanted with the networking site. College students, for instance, seem more interested in peeping their friends' profiles than in listening to their professors' lectures. According to a story from news.com.au, graduates aren't changing their ways too much once they move into the workplace.

This past Sunday, the listeners of Australian radio station 3AW's afternoon news broadcast were puzzled to hear the news segment's theme music followed, not by the news, but by advertisements. The reason for this misstep? According to a station insider, the designated news reader was, instead of reading the news, obliviously browsing through her Facebook account.

There's been plenty of discussion recently on whether or not the use of social networking sites can increase workers' productivity. We'd say that this little anecdote is a big old check in the "Nay" column. [From: News.com.au]

Filed under: Computers

Tags: dumb, facebook, social-networking, web

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Angiebaby @ Oct 11th 2008 10:18AM

Facebook is a computer site. In and of itself, it is useless. It requires human interaction to become relevant. How can it be the reason for someone's actions? "Radio Reporter Misses Live Broadcast Because of Facebook"? This title is an example of what's wrong with American society: Blame someone or something for our own problems/mistakes instead of taking responsibility. The caption should read, "Unemployed Radio Reporter Can Now Look At Facebook All She Wants."

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