That means she doesn't get home until 9:30 p.m. two days a week to begin her homework — interrupted by occasional forays onto Facebook to chat with and instant message friends.

参加这个课程就意味着每周有两个晚上她要九点半才能回家开始做功课，其间还要打断一下，偶尔上网到Facebook上去跟朋友聊聊天或发发短信。

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It's much more important than friends." But even a simple text message can mean a lot.

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The game is designed to be very social, with a Facebook-style stream of activity of your friends, the ability to instant message friends, status updates, in-game messages and forums.

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They can use that to write papers, explore the Web, play games and instant message their friends.

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The service purportedly sends a message to friends on all their channels, Facebook, chat, SMS and Twitter.

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