wildqert.blogg.se - Facebook take a break

Social networking site users are accessing these sites more frequently than in the past.

On a typical day nearly half of all adult internet users access a social networking site. Today 69% of online adults - representing more than half of the entire adult population in the United States - use an online social network of some kind.

As recently as September 2009, 47% of online adults used social networking sites.

And other Pew Internet survey findings illustrate the continued importance of social networking sites more generally to online life: Some of their direct thoughts: “It’s a gossipy thing.” … “I didn’t like to talk too much.” … “I’m not social.” … “My account was compromised.” … “I got tired of minding everybody else’s business.” … “Not enough privacy.” … “Got too many communications.” … “Takes my time away.”įindings in context: social networking site users are checking in more frequently than everĮven as many Facebook users adjust their time allocations on the site for the reasons listed above, the vast majority of social networking site users - 92% of them, based on our most recent findings - maintain a profile on Facebook. Although the number of respondents who answered this question is too small to report detailed percentages, their answers covered many of the same themes of those who continue to use Facebook but have taken a break in the past.

One in five online adults (20%) say that they used Facebook in the past but no longer do so, and we also asked this group to tell us-in their own words-what made them stop using the site. I did not want to be contacted.” … “I took a break when it got boring.” … “It was not getting me anywhere.” … “Too much drama.” … “You get burned out on it after a while.” … “I gave it up for Lent.” … “I was fasting.” … “People were what they had for dinner.” … “I didn’t like being monitored.” … “I got harassed by someone from my past who looked me up.”… “I don’t like their privacy policy.” … “It caused problems in my relationship.” Some of the verbatim thoughts from those who took Facebook breaks include the following: “I was tired of stupid comments.” … “ crazy friends. Others pointed toward a general lack of interest in the site itself (10% mentioned this in one way or another), an absence of compelling content (10%), excessive gossip or “drama” from their friends (9%), or concerns that they were spending too much time on the site and needed to take a break (8%). The largest group (21%) said that their “Facebook vacation” was a result of being too busy with other demands or not having time to spend on the site. We asked the 61% of Facebook users who have taken a break from using the site to tell us in their own words why they did so, and they mentioned a variety of reasons. 8% of online adults who do not currently use Facebook are interested in becoming Facebook users in the future.

20% of the online adults who do not currently use Facebook say they once used the site but no longer do so.61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in the past they have voluntarily taken a break from using Facebook for a period of several weeks or more.1 And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population: Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country.