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Facebook users are jerks, another study confirms

Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percentundergraduate psychology thesis out of York University in Canada
  • The more extreme the narcissism, the more time spent checking Facebook.
  • The more extreme the self-loathing, the more time spent checking Facebook.
  • Males were more concerned with the "About me" sections of their profiles.
  • Women are more concerned with how good they look in their pictures.
as Mehdizade suggests in the summation of her thesisHelen A.S. Popkin is always going "blah blah blah" about Facebook, then she asks you to Friend her or follow her on Twitter ...because that's how she rolls.

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