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This silly article has cropped up on at least three different sites this morning.

On another site that posted this article, Smallwood claims that it is women who are addicted. What tosh. As if the Top Friends app and the viral “friending” groups are mostly women.

People I didn’t know have added me to their list on Facebook because we’re in the same group, using the same application or fans of a page. That’s not an addiction, my friend list is microscopic compared to most people, men and women alike, and I’m content with that.
The site is great for staying in touch with family and friends one already has, that’s what I use it for mostly.

FB isn’t a waste of time if you know what you want from it and use it for that purpose. It doesn’t replace what people consider more conventional social activity, that’s pretty obvious with people’s statuses of always going places and hanging out with friends. So there goes that paranoid theory as well. Oh, and it doesn’t enable “creeping”/”stalking” either. FB is just a site that works well or can get misused like anything else and people need to stop treating it as something somehow more influencial and sinister than any other site.