Sneak usually needs no persuasion to have a pop at our continental neighbours, so happily a recent survey from net ratings firm comScore provides yet another welcome excuse to do just that. It found that Brits spend more time on social networking sites than any other nation in Europe – nearly six hours a month compared to second placed Germany with just over three hours.

Now why are we poking, friend-requesting and uploading more than Johnny Foreigner, Sneak wonders? Given that most of the average UK worker’s week is spent, erm, at work, could it be that our internet usage policies are fairer, or more lenient than our European neighbours’? Or could it be that our lives are so devoid of meaning, our holiday allowance so brief, our existence so industrialised and grim, our cheese so processed, our supermarkets so evil and our leader so bog-eyed, etc, that we need something, any thing, to distract us from reality? Hmm, maybe. Or maybe they’re all out trying to learn how to play rugby properly while we sit glued to our monitors...goodness knows some of 'em could do with a bit of practice.