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How Facebook went from friend to frenemy

  • Written by Elizabeth Stoycheff, Assistant Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
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As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual friendship, social science has compiled an expansive body of research that documents the public’s love-hate relationship with its best frenemy.

What many once viewed as a confidant has devolved into a messy codependence, mired by ambiguity and...

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