It’s official because a report from the Ohio State University has concluded from a study of 219 US graduates and undergraduates that students who use Facebook had a significantly lower grade point average than those who did not.

FACEBOOK users may feel socially successful in cyberspace but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams, according to new research into the academic impact of the social networking website.

The majority of students who use Facebook every day are underachieving by as much as an entire grade compared with those who shun the site.

Of course, this is a ridiculous assertion because it basically boils down to the same thing: students are easily distracted from studying. If it weren’t for Facebook, the students would probably be playing video games, or partying or doing something else.

Or check out this alternative explanation from Chris Matyszczyk:

But I have a suspicious and entirely unscientific feeling that all this research may tell us so far is that bookwormy, people-uncomfortable types do well in school tests.

So nothing’s changed, right?