Are online social sites hurting our real lives?

Many people are stressed out trying to keep up with too many social Web sites.
You're LinkedIn. But how many Online social networks can you be on before it makes life a little too complicated?

It's only natural that social interactions today have moved to the web, since 65 per cent of Americans spend more time with the computers than with their significant others, (guilty, anyone?) according to a study by Kelton Research and Support.com. The average visit to a social network site lasts more than 21 minutes, up from almost 15 minutes last year, according to Hitwise an internet measurement company.

Teenagers visit each other online because parents keep them from seeing each other in person as often as they would like, Boyd says. College students use sites like Facebook as a procrastination tool. And the highest social network usage for adults is during weekdays, when they're supposed to be working.

Myspace and Facebook continue to dominate social networking --Myspace maintains about 72 per cent of the marketshare and Facebook holds 16 per cent, hmmm where's the friendster here??

So, how do you decide where to spend your time? It's all about organizing your socializing.

But social networking simply to network still fulfills a purpose of staying connected -- so connected that you know the minute your friends and acquaintances who live thousand of miles away update their profiles.

According to some research a certain percentage of marriage right now are products of revolutionary online dating that has evolved along with all the social networking over a decade ago.