The latest Retrevo Gadgetology Report on social media usage shows that people are willing to sacrifice just about anything for their social media time.  Half of respondents said that they check Facebook and/or Twitter before they go to bed and right when they wake up.

More than half of respondents said that they have to check Facebook at least once a day.  In terms of checking an instant message – one in three respondents said they’ll check a message they receive during a meal, and one in 14 said that they’d check it during sex!

The authors of the Retrovo Gadgetology Report actually found their own findings disturbing, questioning whether a growing number of social media junkies might be suffering from an addiction.

Indeed.

It runs from the taskbar and from there it is possible to receive some notifications, as a message, an alert, as a publication in the wall or when invitations arrive.

Here are some of their tools that help users to have greater ease in navigating the Internet: 

Facebook Photo Uploader is an application that lets you upload photos directly.

FBLook, designed to update all contact information in Outlook. FBLook  lets you know the status of contacts, update or view the friend requests. All this is possible from Outlook, a toolbar that is integrated into its interface, without heading to the Facebook website.

Dynamite Webcam can take information from any webcam and update your profile with the last image you took.

Read It is useful, because it lets you know who of your friends and relatives are reading books. In this way, you can share the work or borrow it.  

KangXi Box is an application that includes online network to allow surfers to learn the Japanese language. With these new technologies surfers become active, because not only they acquire the service offered by the Internet, but they  can also design new tools for common use.