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    The Facebook Rat Race
    The Facebook Rat Race
    The Facebook Rat Race
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    The Facebook Rat Race

    By R. Paul Stevens

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    Is Facebook a good thing or a bad thing? This counter intuitive article explores how Facebook actually makes us miserable every single day and maybe multiple times a day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Paul Stevens
    Release dateJun 11, 2016
    ISBN9781311342072
    The Facebook Rat Race
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    R. Paul Stevens

    R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.

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      The Facebook Rat Race - R. Paul Stevens

      The Facebook Rat Race

      All Rights Reserved © 2016 Paul Stevens

      An Article in the Steve’s Essays Series

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      The Facebook Rat Race – Also By This Author

      The Facebook Rat Race

      Here’s how Wikipedia sums up Facebook:

      "Facebook is a for-profit corporation and online social networking service based in Menlo Park, California, United States. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high school students. Since 2006, anyone in general aged 13 and older has been allowed to become a registered user of the website, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws. Its name comes from the face book directories often given to U.S. university students.

      After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos, use various apps, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, or other characteristics, and

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