From an academic blog comes the news that some students have given up Facebook for Lent. Students nonplussed by the absence of certain friends from their Facebook news feeds in the last month may have the church calendar to blame. During the season of Lent some students at Texas Tech and elsewhere have reportedly sworn off social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
The pope has lauded such Web sites in the past for helping to strengthen friendship and understanding, but many students acknowledge that they offer hazardously convenient ways to waste time.
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