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Tue Sep 7, 6:30 PM By Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press A new study of Canadian university students suggests Facebook is a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem. Participants who were deemed narcissistic, and others shown to have low self-esteem, spent more time on the massively popular social-networking website, the York University research …
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By Christopher Heine, ClickZ, Apr 29, 2010 18Share Facebook has sent window decals out to businesses this week that instruct people to text in short code to “Like” the establishment. The decals were mailed to a limited number of companies in a small test, according to a Facebook spokesperson, who wouldn’t disclose further details. First …
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Written by Sarah Perez / April 26, 2010 8:29 AM / 14 Comments At last week’s F8 developers’ conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled plans to offer “instant personalization” all over the Web – a way for websites to become instantly more social. Without even signing in, sites gain access to publicly available Facebook information …
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