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Found some information at a few blogs and at Techcrunch today. You need to be careful about your use of social networks, particularly the infamous Facebook. Not only is it actively patrolled by drunkards and miscreants (just kidding), but it is a definite time zapper. And, many organizations are paying attention:

[Charlie] worked for the investment bank Goldman Sachs, he spend an 500 hours in the last six month on Facebook. This is about 4 hours a day!!! What I can’t understand is, what do you want to do 4 hours a day on Facebook? It is getting worse, Charlie got a warning from his employer to stop going on Facebook during work-time. He ignored the warning and posted it on Facebook, mentioning that he is more afraid of losing Facebook than his job.

I don’t know how someone could spend 4 active surfing hours a day using Facebook. According to additional reports on Techcrunch:

Unwisely, perhaps, Charlie posted the warning email on his Facebook account, saying “It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisingly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing facebook ever could.”

Be careful out there. Don’t lose your life to Facebook.

We’re not in the business of talking about Facebook, or commenting on news regarding Facebook and other social applications, but I just heard some interesting news that I really wanted to talk about. Two sites have already picked up and started discussing the latest development of Facebook and Opensocial, the development is being discussed on Opensocket and O’Reilly.

Apparently, Google has released an app for Facebook that uses open social.  A creative way to break into facebook, but a crazy way to layer apps upon apps.

If you are unfamiliar with OpenSocial I highly recommend checking out Google’s website: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

From the site:

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.

It is a great idea, unifying - at least in part - the web, bringing the common features together, allowing you to great apps or gadgets to be used across multiple sites. But, Facebook has yet to adopt it.

Perhaps with this new move by Google they will take a closer look.