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From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
Date: December 21, 2009 3:55:24 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: IP: Regarding dropping Facebook...
To Deal With Obsession, Some Defriend Facebook - NYTimes.com
By KATIE HAFNER
Published: December 20, 2009
Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people's electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world.
Make that 9.9 billion and change. Recently, Halley Lamberson, 17, and Monica Reed, 16, juniors at San Francisco University High School, made a pact to help each other resist the lure of the login. Their status might as well now read, "I can't be bothered."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/internet/21facebook.html
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