Facebook users get worse grades


	Facebook users get worse grades

David M Ewalt

4-14-2009 12:52 PM

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facebook, education

David M Ewalt says:

Pay heed to the author of the survey -- this is not actually proof of a correlation between Facebooking and poor academic performance. But it raises interesting questions -- and if my own experiences procrastinating on facebook are any measure, there may be something to it.

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4-14-2009 1:57 PM

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oh its just something to talk about. There is no way Facebook is more luring than saaaay. Drugs and free sex of the 60's. Harder drugs and pay sex of the 70's. Half naked women on MTV of the 80's. The 90's? Not much to go on there.

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outside class on activities such as Facebook, part-time jobs and
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