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Survey: Facebook More Crucial Than A Shower Or A Flushing Toilet

We have written about Facebook statistics before. We spotted this today:

" .. a survey conducted by London's Science Museum. Scientists always care about people, so they asked 3,000 of them what things in this fair world they couldn't live without.

Because people are insane optimists, the one thing that these respondents claimed they couldn't live without was sunshine.

Because people are merely insane, the fifth thing these respondents claimed they couldn't live without was Facebook."

The full list is here.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20104292-71/facebook-more-crucial-than-having-a-toilet-survey/#ixzz1Xf86QOaS

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