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Posted Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009, at 5:08 PM ETAlso in Slate, Farhad Manjoo says there are no longer any reasons to be a Facebook holdout.
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StumbleUponIn 2007, Michael Agger asked if Google knows too much about us. Daniel Gross asked if the social-networking boom is a repeat of the 1990s dot-com bubble. Reihan Salam laid out the Facebook commandments: how to deal with unwanted friend requests, the ethics of de-friending, and other etiquette predicaments. Emily Yoffe described her meteoric rise from a social-networking newbie to a Facebook superstar.
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