I had choosen these articles in the http://mashable.com :
The Cost of Social Media to Worker Productivity : $2.25
Billion (Survey), and The Productivity Cost of Social Networks.
This articles has shown that online
activity is costing businesses millions of dollars due to the
social networking and media sites that the employees
visited.One claimed that Facebook is costing over 130 million
a day,with 233 billiom hours “lost” every month and merely web
sufting cost about US$63 billion each year. This lead that
employees are spending 10 out of 8 hours doing nothing at work.
To me,it is quite shocking to see that it actually affect the
people as well as the society itself as all the technology that were
involved especially internet.But it is actually part of a human life.
Sometime employees suft to relax their mind after a
stressful moment or even their free time.Their usage in the
media can be control in certain extend for example company
could monitor on what they do and stuff which could actually
decrese the amount cost which they had lost.
But as the same time media has some advantages on its own. as media is
quite important in business industry.With the social
networking such as Facebook,Twitter and other social networks
to connect with people who could provide mentorship or even
get contacts to improve the business development.
To me,networking sites is not bad for productivity cause it
actually increase the productivity in either way whether in
profits or even bonding between company to company.
Sometimes,People tend to depend on technology till
they didnt realise that what they do affect the people around them.
Even kids at home was so into to the internet till
they even dont care about their time to sleep or even care to
think about school.This kind of addiction could effect their
personal life and time.More new gadget was introduced and new
media had been getting bigger and bigger when days goes
by.People had this kind of curiosity to look on new things and
take alot of time to research and get things that they wanted
or even what they desired to have. All people are like
customer,either it is minor or major.
Media had give people alot of dreams and saticfaction.
For example, iphone.Iphone had alots of uses in it.
There’s contacts,games,internet,wifi and many more.
From what i see, new media had the advantages and disadvantages in the industry.
Either the impact to the company itself or the people in it.
We could not actually control every single step of the media but could gain from it through
different technique or ideas to increase the company’s profits.
No matter what people think about media, it can never
be stop or prevented. Using new media can be a good equipment
in life but it can be very nasty.There alot more impact that
can be affected from new Media.Really hope in the future newmedia will be more useful than destroying a company’s benefits. 
The links of the articles:
http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/social-media-productivity-cost/
http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/social-media-
7471/the-productivity-costs-of-social-networks/
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