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"   Photo: iStock  It may be just the first Monday of the year, but Facebook isn&amp;#039;t wasting any time. The big news is that the social behemoth is now valued at $50b, thanks to a $500m investment from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies. Not only does this have everyone noting that Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo! or Time Warner, but also that we can expect serious expansion from Mark Zuckerberg&amp;#039;s baby- but what kind of expansion exactly? Well, one indication could be the report that Facebook attempted to purchase Twitter two years ago (but was turned down). The move would have made Facebook even more integral to your average social networker&amp;#039;s daily clicks and word counts, and shows that Facebook is still thinking of ways to keep us all even more meta-connected. What could be next? A video-clip version of Twitter? How about a chip for the side of your head that just broadcasts your thoughts and eliminates the need to type at all? It&amp;#039;s not like Facebook is losing steam with the people \u2013 it registered four separate times on Hitwise&amp;#039;s list of the top ten most searched terms of 2010, including the top spot. It also surpassed Google (and Yahoo! Mail) as the most visited site on the internet, garnering 8.9% of all web visits in the US for most of last year. It&amp;#039;s hard to imagine the free-for-all social register getting any bigger than it is, but let&amp;#039;s face it, it could, and it looks like it will. In the meantime, some people are still learning that not everything in real life is suitable for Facebook. Four nursing students in Kansas are learning this the hard way. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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