Oh, media. You'll never just let a good story lie... it seems that everybody and their uncle is reporting on a Michigan State study looking into the campus phenomenon of "friends with benefits." (That's FWB for you research types.)

Most articles seem to be quite gleeful about the study's big conclusion: that compared to real relationships, FWB falls short in terms of "passion, commitment and communication."

Well, duh. If you were passionate, committed, and communicating, well, you'd be in a real relationship. Didn't need to survey 125 undergrads to tell you that!

The report, available in this month's Archives of Sexual Behavior, also has a number of other unsurprising findings, including that fact that:

-FWB relationships are made up of an almost perfect ratio of laziness, desperation, and late-night text messaging;

-FWB almost never turns into real relationships, unless you're the lucky 10% or Mormon; and

-New York Times writers see "sit[ting] around in your sweats and watch Friends reruns" as the hallmark of a successful relationship.

Didn't Rachel and Ross starts out as FWB, anyway?