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Poll: Biggest waste of time is social networking

A "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair online poll asked people to choose which of five options was the biggest waste of time. The choices were social networking, fantasy football, watching TV, shopping, reading, and your job. Here are the results:

--36 percent of men and women said social networking

--25 percent said fantasy football

--23 percent said watching TV

--9 percent said shopping

--2 percent said reading

--2 percent said their job

Here's the link to the poll results, which show how men and women voted for each selection.


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I guess it is something that lot of people find entertainment in. If people would use social networking in a more educational way then maybe it wouldn't be seen as such a waste of time by 36% of men and women.


That is just a great post, I liked very much to go through it.

Julianna:

The difference between social networking and most of those other choices is that social networking can actually be used for a lot more than just chatting with friends and posting meaningless facts about yourself. Fantasy football is anything seems like a bigger waste of time in my opinion, but I guess it is something that lot of people find entertainment in. If people would use social networking in a more educational way then maybe it wouldn't be seen as such a waste of time by 36% of men and women.

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