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POPSFacebook users get worse grades 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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POPSScrabulous Apocalypse The game was a blatant copy of Scrabble, and there's no question it was violating all kinds of copyrights. But it got on the site long before Scrabble maker Hasbro ever launched their own application, so huge numbers of Facebook users got addicted to the game.
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POPSFacebook Chat Launches What remains to be seen is whether Facebook chat requests will become as annoying as all the demands to install funwalls, take movie quizzes, and join zombie armies.
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POPSFacebook Launching A Music Service? These rumors have been bubbling for a while, but it's looking like Facebook is really considering this. Taking to labels is not the same thing as actually launching a service -- but Facebook would potentially be a huge player in the music retail market, so it's worth keeping an eye on.
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POPSIs Scrabulous Worth $40 Million? Scrabulous is the main reason I log onto Facebook these days. But 30 or 40 million is crazy, particularly since Scrabulous' developers are so clearly infringing on Mattel's copyright.
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POPSDon't Believe The Second Life Hype According to Yankee Group, the growth rate of Second Life users has stalled since October '06, and average time spent per user is just 12 minutes per month. That hardly sounds like a revolutionary, booming, incredibly important cultural force for change.