Facebook Users Get Lower Grades

Then again, non-users study 11-15 hours a week

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 14, 2009 7:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – College students who use Facebook are less likely to be crowing about their grades in status updates, according to a new study that found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that non-Facebooking students get significantly higher grades. The Facebook users all said in a survey that the site didn’... Read full story »

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