[Commentary] The news that more time is spent on social networks than on email should be just the kind of news that telephone companies and cable companies would like to hear. For much different reasons, Google should also. After all, social networking is at the beginning of its development and is growing more sophisticated each day. Every day, the news gets more intriguing, making the old cliché about developments occurring in "Internet time" simply quaint. Now, the social networking is developing in "Twitter time," the time it takes to type out your 140 characters of experience, knowledge, wisdom or nonsense. Perhaps social networking takes up so much time because there are so many outlets to use. Instead of simply checking one email address or two, someone might check those, plus a Facebook or MySpace mail, or keep up with the Twitter feeds. Rather than look at a potential land of plenty, telecom carriers see only a land of scarcity, and they want to capitalize on it by restricting access to bandwidth by customers.
