That Facebook is hugely distracting is hardly stop-the-presses kind of news, but parents might be dismayed to learn that the social-media site can hobble learning and make kids less healthy and more depressed, TIME reports. Research has found that students in middle school, high school and college who checked Facebook at least once during a 15-minute study period got lower grades…
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