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# Facebook users have lower grades than non-users

According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 800 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.

The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of non users, 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers.

It also found that 79 percent of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits.

# Over 350 million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD)

An American psychologist believes that FAD, or Facebook Addiction Disorder, is a condition that is defined by hours spent on Facebook, so much time in fact that the healthy balance of the individual’s life is affected. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.

The most common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in the extreme cases. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.

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