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Social media dos and do nots revealed

by Sylvie Barak on 19 October 2009, 22:25

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Mind your mobile manners

A couple of recent surveys into online social networking behaviour have revealed that opinion is divided regarding what's acceptable.

The first was a social media survey of 771 US based individuals by Gadgetology, sponsored by e-tailer Retrevo.com. The other, entitled "Holiday Mobile Etiquette", was sponsored by none other than Intel and saw Harris Poll sampling 2,625 adults aged 18 and older, also in the US.

"Do you tweet while driving? How about on vacation, or at work?" asked Gadgetology, before revealing that a disturbingly high number of under 35 year olds were displaying what it saw as signs of social media addiction. "We're no social psychologists," Gadgetology declared, "but it looks like a whole generation (or two) is at risk of spending so much time texting, checking Facebook, using Twitter and other mobile social media services as to become addicted."

Gadgetology reckons most people check Facebook and Twitter at least a couple of times a day, but 27 per cent of under 35s were reportedly checking Facebook over ten times a day, with 46 per cent admitting they usually did so from their mobile devices whilst on the go. Meanwhile, Twitter is blamed for bringing out the worst in social not-workers, with 39 per cent of Twits fessing up to checking the site more than ten times a day for updates.

Also, whereas it's good manners to not kiss and tell, it's obviously not as apparent to the younger generation to not bonk and tweet, with some 36 per cent of respondents under the age of 35 saying they often used social networking sites just after sex. Gives a whole new perspective to all that online poking, eh? Men, apparently, are twice as likely to exhibit this behaviour as women and over-excitable iPhone owners are three times as likely to indulge in a post-coital status update as Blackberry owners.