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Facebook for College? Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gives $2 Million

It’s getting harder and harder to find someone without a Facebook account—as of January 2011, the social network had over 600 million active users, many of them college students.

Hopeful that it will help improve post-secondary graduation rates in the United States, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $2 million in funding to a a company that created an app designed to engage a college’s future and current students by creating an online school community within Facebook…