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In Internet Age, People Have Fewer Confidantes, Study Finds

Erica Augenstein  —  Nov 11, 2011

Americans are reporting a decline in their number of close confidantes, a Cornell professor argues in a recent study.

How Facebook Ruins My Life Daily

Nikki Nussbaum  —  Mar 31, 2009

What the F? I’m gone for spring break for five days and Facebook is completely different? Just in case I wasn’t already having enough trouble keeping track of people’s birthdays, it goes ahead and moves the few buttons left that I knew how to use without even giving me fair warning. It took me a good 20 minutes of stalking to figure out that people were updating their Facebook statuses rather than writing all over their own walls. It would be one thing if these changes had some useful function for me — like if they were to add a “Remove Unsightly Pimple in Default Pic” button — that’s something I could understand. But, with these seemingly arbitrary and certainly confusing changes, I can’t help but wonder: Why, Mark Zuckerberg? Why?

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