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So, I spent about 2 hours today working on an efficient Facebook Calendar export to work with my Google Calendar. No luck. It seems with the recent upgrade of Facebook, the export feature no longer exists (except on individual events – not the entire calendar). Maybe they’ll fix this… I do hope so. This will help with many of my clients’ Facebook integrations.

If you are familiar with a way to make this work, please let me know!

Oh, while I’m here, the reason that I was curious about this was because of all the Palm Pre commercials talking about syncing your phone with Google Calendar, Facebook, and other calendars all into one. Oh well. Perhaps I’ll be able to do this soon… only time will tell.

According to Nielsen, Facebook is the #1 website ever… yeah, pretty much. In 2009, the study they found the following (from Mashable’s “Facebook Is the Web’s Ultimate Timesink” by Ben Parr):

Back in June 2009, Nielsen estimated that the average U.S. user spent four hours and 39 minutes on Facebook per month. That’s about 9.3 minutes per day in a 30-day month. In August, that number rose to five hours and 46 minutes, or 11.5 minutes per day.In January 2010, though, the amount of time the average person spent on Facebook jumped to more than seven hours. Each American Facebook user spent an average of 421 minutes on Facebook per month, which amounts to more than 14 minutes per day. Even if you lump together the time spent on Google (1:23), Yahoo (2:09), YouTube (1:02), Microsoft/Bing (1:35) Wikipedia (0:15), and Amazon (0:22), it still doesn’t beat Facebook.

Truth is, I’m typing this, but I’m on Facebook too.  I’m on it all day long.  Granted, the study shows that only about 14 minutes a day is normal, but I’m sure people like me are skewing that number.  I have 3 computers in front of me at almost all times, so it’s very easy for me to have one computer dedicated to my Pandora, iChat and Facebook, while I work on the other one.  And with the “tab” feature in modern web browsers, you can have your Facebook open in the background and continue to chat with friends all day long.

It’s quite clear that we live in a more and more connected society than we ever have before – and for those of us that have embraced it (at running speeds) we probably couldn’t imagine it any other way.  Really… what did I do with my time 5 years ago?  I can’t remember, I know I wasn’t on anything like MySpace or Facebook, and I surely wasn’t blogging… hmmm.  Oh yeah, I went to a lot of movies.

So, tell me, readers, how many hours a day would you say you’re on Facebook?  Please leave a comment and let’s compare…

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