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Comment on CNN’s: “2010: Year of digital distraction?”

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/23/cashmore.digital.distraction/

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Pete Cashmore founder and CEO of Mashable wrote a special article for CNN.com about how we are headed for ever-increasing distraction.

Even more interesting than the article, however, are the comments from the users on the site. One user says:

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the company i work for give you an “allowance” giving you 60mins of time on the internet in 10min sessions. This makes it good to go on these sites whenever you wish, but not when the company suits it. as well as this we have a “chill-out” room that we can browse the whole internet.

Another user replied:
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What company do you work for? My employer blocks all well known social networking sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Hulu, etc. So, yay, my productivity is “up”.
My message to companies worldwide: stop trying to hide from social media and the internet! You do NOT increase productivity by limiting internet usage. What will truly increase productivity in the workplace is by educating your employees on how to use these tools responsibly.
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