The home button on my iPod Touch 4G is barely working!

I have to press my home button and my sleep button about 10 times to get it to respond, does anyone have any idea why both buttons would act up? My ipod is nearly full, as in MBs away from it, would that have anything to do with the slow movement??

No, should not have any effect.
Try the standard fixes:
- Reset. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory defaults/new iPod.

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