Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percent, study says - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Back to School - msnbc.com

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Does the "F" in Facebook stand for an "F" in school? A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students who don't have the social networking site in visual range, or even running in the background on their computers or mobile phones.

The study, reported in the Daily Mail of Britain, was done by Netherlands psychologist Paul A. Kirschnera of the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open University of the Netherlands, and Aryn C. Karpinskib of Ohio State University. It will be published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percent, study says - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Back to School - msnbc.com

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