Facebooking, MySpacing the new smoko?

SHE'S one of the few remaining smokers in her office and some label her a time waster because of it, but Lucy says her colleagues waste more time on Facebook and MySpace.

"I have had it said to me before by a non-smoker that I'm a bludger and that they work far harder than I do, just on the basis that I go out for cigarettes," Lucy, a journalist, said.

"I don't think that's a fair measure of your work output, how long you sit at your desk.

"People look at their emails or Facebook or at real estate on the internet when they should be working, and I don't do that.