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Facebook Says You’ll Break Up Before Spring Break

You know what would be handy? A place where say a half-billion people could record the activity of their daily lives, their highs and lows, where lots of other people could see it. That way, interested...

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Study: ‘Hyper-Texting’ Teens More Likely to Have Had Sex, Tried Drugs

Teens who send more than 120 texts a day are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol or illegal drugs than peers who text less, according to a study conducted at Case Western Reserve University...

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How Social Networks Spread Eating Disorders

Teens are undeniably influenced by those around them, and by what they see on social media from television to the internet. So what happens when western media infiltrates a remote island society? The...

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Edged Out of Times Square and Off Craigslist, Prostitutes Turn to Facebook

A survey of sex workers in New York City finds that 83% of prostitutes have a Facebook page, which accounted for 25% of their regular clientele in 2008. Five years prior, Facebook didn’t even factor...

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Healthland’s Top 10 Health and Science Twitter Feeds

Of course, we think Healthland has the most happening Twitter feed around, but there’s a whole other world of worthwhile tweeting from the science and health community that we think is too good to...

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In a Way, Haven’t We All Been a Weiner Online?

Rep. Anthony Weiner’s “Tweet cheating” has got commentators falling over themselves to condemn him by pointing out the virtues of his wife, Huma Abedin. Yes, she was gorgeous in Vogue. Yes, she is an...

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Introducing the Healthland Podcast

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Healthland Podcast! Click this little arrow for a lively, off-the-cuff discussion of the week’s health/science news. Host John Cloud, senior writer at TIME and...

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T.M.I., Mom. Parents and Adults Overshare on Facebook Too, Study Says

Many dire warnings have been sounded about kids using social media, particularly because teenage-sized wisdom tends to mix dangerously with Facebook-sized measures of public display. But a new study...

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Status: Drunk. Can Facebook Posts Help ID Problem Drinkers?

The next time some blustery college kid boasts on Facebook about how wasted he was last night, don’t just roll your eyes. He may be telegraphing he’s got a drinking problem, according to research...

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Facebook Status Update: Organ Donor

Not content with merely changing the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can save a few lives too. Users of the site can now post their organ-donor status to their Facebook timeinlines. See...

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Why We Talk About Ourselves: The Brain Likes It

Science has now proved what kindergarten teachers, reality-show fans and Catholic priests discover anew every day: humans can’t help talking about themselves. It just feels too good. In a new study...

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Who Wields the Most Influence on Facebook?

When it comes to social influence, what type of people lead and who follows? It’s a question pondered by parents and marketing companies alike. Researchers at NYU sought to figure it out by tracking...

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5 Great Health Apps You Should Download Now

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Get Out the Friend Vote: How Facebook Spurred 340,000 Extra Votes in 2010

Your Facebook friends may be more influential than you think. In the first study to demonstrate the effects of social media on real-world voting, a Facebook post encouraging people to get to the polls...

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Five Smartphone Apps That Promote Smoking

Marketing cigarettes ain’t what it used to be. Gone are the days of Joe Camel billboards and T-shirts or caps branded with cigarette makers’ logos. But Big Tobacco hasn’t given up on getting its...

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Why You’re More Likely to Remember A Facebook Status Than a Face

Remember a year ago, when the cousin of your college roommate posted a Facebook status that she got engaged? Sure you do. In fact, according to a recent study, you remember that Facebook status more...

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How Manti Te’o Could Have Fallen in Love with Someone He Never Met

In what must be the most jaw-dropping sports story to emerge in a week of jaw-dropping sports stories (hello, OprahLance!), it emerges that star Notre Dame footballer Manti Te’o had a girlfriend who...

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Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself

No surprise — those Facebook photos of your friends on vacation or celebrating a birthday party can make you feel lousy. Facebook is supposed to envelope us in the warm embrace of our social network,...

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Want a Better Relationship? There’s an App for That

Next time you see a couple at a cafe focused intently on their phones instead of each other, don’t assume their relationship is in trouble. They might actually be working out their conflicts, using...

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How Facebook Improves Memory

Checking status updates on Facebook may be just the distraction your memory needs. Facebook and other social media are generally considered distractions, rather than aids, to building memory....

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