5 Things: Are Your Friends Leaving Facebook?

1. Unfriending Facebook? A new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that many Facebook users take breaks from the social network from time to time, with these breaks stretching for weeks at a time. The reasons? Too busy, not interesting, and too much drama. What's your current Facebook status?

2. Bridget Jones' New Diary: The newest novel  chronicling the adventures of a hapless Bridget Jones will hit shelves in November 2013. Author Helen Fielding is not giving away any details about the plot in this news release:

“My life has moved on,” says Fielding, “and Bridget’s will move on, too.” The story will be set in present-day London, with Bridget at a later stage in her life. “I hope people will have as much fun reading it, as I am writing it.”

3. Wine Down Wednesday at Boston Billiards: Simply put, it's half-off all bottles of wine at this bustling night spot. If it's your cup of tea, it will also be your cheap bottle of wine. Here are the details.

4. NPD: Fast and Furious: Late breaking news last night was this story about a call to Nashua Police, reporting "individuals with shotguns" in the area of Ash and West Hollis streets. Police were quick to respond and thoroughly swept the neighborhood, but turned up no gang of gun-toters.

5. Good Fat, Bad Fat – I'm So Confused: Now comes this study, from the National Institutes of Health, suggesting that maybe animal fat isn't so bad for us and, in some cases, better for us than vegetable fat. You read about it and tell me what you think, because I'm confused. All I know is that I will never give up bacon.