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How people use Facebook for breaking up

The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media

It happens more often than you might think. Perhaps one day your partner changes the relationship status on Facebook, does this mean anything? It may be clear message that it’s over. Leslie did one day checked her Facebook profile to find out she was single. Her now ex-boyfriend met somebody else and she learned this through the usual news feed.

Professor Ilana Gershon of Indiana University Bloomington has recently published The Breakup 2.0, a study of how people use new media to end relationships. Leslie was one of 72 people interviewed for the book.

“Almost everyone still thinks that people should breakup face-to-face,” Gershon said. “The only people I interviewed who thought that face-to-face was less than ideal would imagine that they were the ones doing the breaking up, not that they were being dumped.” Continue Reading »

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Book Review: Wired for War

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The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

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Patrick Cockburn is a journalist and a veteran war correspondent. He began his carrier as a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and the Independent in 1979 and he concentrated on Iraq ever since.

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Magic and everyday life. Andalusia, 16th-18th century

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Londinium and Beyond

 

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The Atlas of Endangered Species

 

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Unveiling Reality Through Fiction – Heart of Diamonds by Dave Donelson

 

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The Republican Alternative – The Netherlands and Switzerland Compared

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Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield

 

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Can you catch cancer?

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