If this is the year of anything then it's the year of social media. And yet I start to see the tide turning.
I'm quite a keen Twitterer (www.twitter.com for anyone who doesn't know, and anyone wanting to follow me is welcome as GuyClapperton - and hello to anyone reading this after I tweet it). And I'm on http://www.facebook.com. I find these things useful - as a self-employed writer they can be powerful reminders that I'm around, to people with commissioning budgets.
Then you read something like this, in which a reporter tried to get a whole load of Facebookers together. Or the story the other week about the couple getting divorced over a Second Life incident, and it culminates in a search on Google with the string 'Is Twitter a waste of time?' producing 460,000 responses.
Now, I know loads of things get multiple responses but that's huge. I'd be very interested in people's views - do people at your workplace use social networks? There must be bandwidth implications but are these offset by productivity gains or new business?
No cheating now. Honest answers only. I'm genuinely interested.