SHOOT: Banning social media from offices may be counterproductive, although it depends which offices you're talking about. In media circles social networking is bread-and-butter. In education is probably doesn't serve much purpose.
An American study has found that students who spend their time adding friends, chatting and "poking" others on the website may devote as little as one hour a week to their academic work.
About 83 per cent of British 16 to 24-year-olds are thought to use social networking sites to keep in touch with friends and organise their social lives.
Many offices across Britain have banned sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo in a bid to stop their workers wasting time.
They found that 65 per cent of Facebook users accessed their account daily, usually checking it several times to see if they had received new messages. The amount of time spent on Facebook at each login varied from just a few minutes to more than an hour.
The Ohio report shows that students who used Facebook had a "significantly" lower grade point average – the marking system used in US universities – than those who did not use the site.
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