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If you’re worried about the hours your teen spends updating their Facebook page and checking out their friends’ statuses, you may be fretting over nothing. Two studies, one at the University of New Hampshire and the other at Northwestern University, failed to show a “robust negative relationship between grade point averages and use of Facebook.” But wait, there’s more! An Ohio State University study from last year found the opposite, with students who used Facebook several times a day had a GPA a full letter grade lower than students who did use the service. So which study is correct?
I’m pretty lenient on the limits of the appropriate when it comes to humor. My general rule is, if you make me laugh out loud, you don’t have to be politically correct.
Which is why I’m just speechless over the video that won an online Toyota commercial contest. Continue reading »
As the Byrds once sang, to everything there is a season, a time to plant, a time to reap. For about 22 million Facebook users, that time is right now. According to Zynga, the company who created Facebook’s FarmVille application, that is the number of people who log on at least once a day to till their fake land and harvest their imaginary crops in the online game. Continue reading »
If your kids are wasting away their summer vacation online, you might want to set your Net Nanny to block at least one Website. Hackers have reportedly taken over a popular children’s site, and unsuspecting kids are loading up on malware as you read this. Continue reading »
If there was ever a story of what goes around comes around, here we go. A German teacher sued to have a Website taken down because students gave her bad grades on the site.
They gave her a 4.3 out of six, and she said it was a bunch of scheisse. Well, in more technical words, of course, she was a teacher of German after all.
So what did the court say? Continue reading »
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