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6 Scientific Reasons Social Networks Are Bad for Society | Cracked.com

6 Scientific Reasons Social Networks Are Bad for Society | Cracked.com

Jon Dron@jond

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By Jon Dron 19 July 2011 @ 9:26am

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http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-scientific-reasons-social-networks-are-bad-society/

Despite the lighthearted tone of the article and its aims at mass appeal, this actually points to some good papers on a range of interesting facets of social site use and behaviour.

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