On 2013-10-17 12:36 AM, pelarg@aol.com wrote: > Probably the worst thing about FB is that it can indeed become addicting (one friend calls it "Methbook") but you just have to control the time spent on it, like any other activity. Just yesterday the following piece appeared in an online (south african) newspaper, The Daily maverick: *Fact of the day:* The average smartphone user checks his/her phone 110 times a day. And as we become more obsessed with our technology, this number is going to get higher -- some participants in the study <http://emma.thedailymaverick.co.za/servlet/link/…> averaged 900 times a day. Frankly, we don't care how many times you check your phone, as long as at least one of them is to read this lovingly-prepared newsletter. The link refers to http://npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/… It boils down to between once every 10 minutes to about every 48 seconds! I must admit, I'd rather spend more time with my plants than with my phone, computer, facebook or other gadget! Daylily season is starting, Narcissus are about all finished, Oxalis mostly are dormant by now. The only thing I missed this year was Spring, somehow we skipped it all together . . . Christiaan Upington South Africa