We’ve all heard of Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, and Twitter.  Maybe you have an account on one or the other, or even all four.  You, with millions of other users, are along the ride of being available 24/7 to have friends, family members, and other networks to see your information, profile, and pictures.  Now being able to share posts on your daily life exercises and thoughts, we- as a social networking obsessed world- are now officially spend 82% more time on these sites compared to the amount of time we put just a year earlier.

So much time that some of us are putting in the number of hours equivalent to a full-time job – a full-time job that doesn’t take a break on weekends. If the average person spends around five and a half hours a day, seven days a week, that leads one to a little shy of forty hours. Didn’t think you spent that much time each week, did you?

And it’s not just the United States that is infatuated with social networking. Australia, Switzerland, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Spain, and the entire U.K is shortly behind us. In Fact, the US may have the most people belonging to these groups, but Australians have the lead for times-per-day visits. Around the globe, people are interested in having people follow them and have people interested in what they are doing; all day, everyday.  Are we in a self-obsessed world, or just a world that loves to communicate with each other? With social networking up by 82% from last year, how much longer will it be before all of our time is spent on the computer?

The decade has come and gone and the night of New Year’s Eve is now behind us, leaving just one question that lingers into 2010: what did you resolve? And, more importantly, how’s technology going to help you keep your resolutions? We have something for pretty much everything these days – personal trainers that yell at you to do the last 5 push ups, websites that generate automatic shopping lists, and iPhone applications to do, well, pretty much anything. And now we have Dorthy, the web based know-it-all best friend who will make sure you keep your resolutions. And what a best friend she is. Specify any goal – seriously, upon browsing previous entries everything from “I want to be a chef” to “I just want to be loved” comes up – and Dorthy will help you get there, by creating a “dreampage” with news articles, blogs, photos, videos, and links to other users, all created with the intent to help you achieve your goal. I typed in “become a better blogger” and got articles on blogging basics, technical info on how to tweet information from a blog or upload content more effectively, various video clips, and a suggestion to get in contact with a one “Stephan from Taiwan” who apparently would like to be a famous blogger. Dorthy thinks we might have some stuff to talk about. Visit Dorthy to see what she thinks for you.

[via Mashable]