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STUDENTS who go on Facebook do worse in exams, it was revealed today.
An American study revealed that most kids who use the popular social networking site daily score up to a whole GRADE lower than those that don't.
And parents will be shocked to find that while heavy users collect lots of cyber-friends and message and 'poke' each other plenty - they can spend as little as an HOUR a week doing school work.
Many offices across Britain banned sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo last year in a bid to stop their workers wasting time.
And it looks like the move was a clever one as about 83 per cent of Brit 16 to 24-year-olds now use the sites to organise their social lives.
Aryn Karpinski, a researcher at Ohio State University conducted the study on students' Facebook habits to reveal the results.
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” said Karpinski.
“Every generation has its distractions, but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.”
Karpinski quizzed 219 American students and found 65 per cent of them checked their Facebook account daily - some for over an hour each time.
And the results showed these users had 'significantly' lower grades than those who did not use the site.
“It is the equivalent of the difference between getting an A and a B,” said Karpinski, who will present her findings this week to the the American Educational Research Association.
Some UK students have realised the potential damage the sites could have on their work.
University student Daisy Jones, 21, said: “I was in the library trying to write a 2,000-word essay when I realised my Facebook habit had got out of hand ... Before you know it, a couple of minutes has turned into a couple of hours and you haven’t written a thing.”
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