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Too much time online hurts your grades: Polls
Sat, Nov 28, 2009
The Straits Times

By Lester Kok

IF YOU think that spending too much time on the computer is bad for your grades - well, it is.

An American study by Ohio University has found that college students who used Facebook spent less time studying and scored lower grades than those who were not busy 'poking' their friends online.

Facebook users in the study of 219 undergraduates had grade point averages (GPAs) of between 3 and 3.5, while non-users had GPAs of between 3.5 and 4.


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