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This is nothing out of the ordinary. Corporations have been creating Facebooks and MySpaces since they realized that people spend a lot of time on them. It works out to be very low cost advertising. I wouldn't be surprised if Vista had a MySpace of it's own...not that anyone cares:p
 
Boo to Facebook. So many students use Facebook in the computer labs that the school will kick those out of the lab if caught using Facebook.
 
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