Facebook-Cigarette Comparison Sparked Again

The comparison of Facebook addition to cigarette addiction surfaced again, this time from Nantes, France, and Damien Fournier, author of blog The 1440 Minutes, which focuses on the 1,440 minutes in each 24-hour day.

The comparison of Facebook addition to cigarette addiction surfaced again, this time from Nantes, France, and Damien Fournier, author of blog The 1440 Minutes, which focuses on the 1,440 minutes in each 24-hour day.

Fournier wrote:

Facebook users spend an average of 12 minutes each day updating Facebook. Just 12 minutes a day seems like nothing out of the 1,440 we have available each day. But that daily addiction will cut the same amount of time from your life that scientists say you would lose due to a smoking habit, and it builds up to do some serious long-term damage, eating weeks and months out of your life.

When you do the math, it is shocking how much time you lose from your life by updating Facebook.

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