In today’s economic climate our obsession with Facebook is bad for business.

With our economy heading into (depending on whom you believe) either a recession or a long-term depression, we cannot afford to have workers idling away their days on Facebook. Of course, this is not denying the importance of the lunch hour, or breaks throughout the day. However, since our leaders seem to feel this battle against changing global economic circumstances requires fighting with "every weapon at its disposal", we need to consider the cost of our addiction in the workplace.

This argument presupposes that those who go on facebook are wasting time and that people who are not on facebook at work are being productive. In mentioning the recession, it is relevant to point out that those who are responsible for the recession are those top level bankers. Their bad work was not due to being on facebook but by being greedy. Perhaps by going on facebook people will realise the importance of socialising instead of personal greed.  
 
In addition, facebook is a business. It generates money. There are sponsors, advertisers, application managers, and let us not forget that the owners of facebook have to pay to maintain their servers. So the time we spend on facebook whilst at work is reinvested into the economy and so is good for business.