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...image. You’ve seen or have been victim to its various incarnations—obsessively going to the gym, binging at the dessert table, constantly strategizing about caloric intake, absurd one-fruit-an-hour diets, screensavers that say, “Diet or die,” Facebook notes that cry out for help, a sudden and inexplicable switch to veganism, etc. While anorexia is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual as failure to maintain body weight within 85% of expected, disordered eating has no such quantitative criteria, falling into the catch-all category...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Calories for the Harvard Soul | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...prediction, on a scale of 0 to Facebook...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: More Zuckerberg Wannabees | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Chang ’11, for example, believes that Knill’s openness improves the learning experience. “He always seems extremely approachable, and very open and flexible,” she says. While students probably don’t want to see professors in their Facebook news feeds, professorial personal blogs can provide a delicious glimpse into the lives of the tenured...

Author: By Laura C. Schaffer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Online: From FYI to TMI | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

That's it. You've now seen everything that's on the Internet. There's nothing left to do except check Facebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Internet's 99 Greatest Hits | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...consumer-driven culture, we define relationships with materialist symbols: saccharine cards on Valentine’s Day, long-stemmed roses on anniversaries, and diamond rings at engagements all serve as measures of our devotion to monogamy. However, with social-networking sites such as Facebook commanding an average of 20 minutes of our attention each day, a new standard of exclusivity is quickly divesting chocolates and perfumes of their primary significance. Forget meeting the parents: The ubiquitous Facebook “relationship status” now defines the seriousness of romance with a drop-down menu. We can be straightforwardly...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Relationship Status on Facebook: | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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