Yahoo - AFP News, 5 February 2013
More than
half of US Facebook members have taken breaks from the leading social network,
with the top reason being they are just too busy, according to a study released
Tuesday.
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| Facebook's Like Button logo displayed at the entrance of the Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California on May 18, 2012. |
About 61 percent
of US users said they had taken time off from Facebook at some point, with 27
percent planning to spend less time on it in the coming year, the Pew Research
Center said.
The largest
group -- 21 percent -- said they had taken a break because they were too busy.
Other reasons included being "tired of stupid comments,"
"crazy" friends, boredom, and having it cause love life problems.
"These
data show that people are trying to make new calibrations in their life to
accommodate new social tools," said Pew Internet Project director Lee
Rainie, a co-author of the study titled "Coming and Going on
Facebook."
"They
are adding up the pluses and minuses on a kind of networking balance sheet and
they are trying to figure out how much they get out of connectivity vs. how
much they put into it."
Slightly
more than two-thirds of adults in the United States who use the Internet belong
to Facebook, according to Pew.
A fifth of
those who were not Facebook members said they once belonged to the service but
quit, the study said.
Reasons
given for leaving included getting tired of "minding everybody else's
business" and it "takes my time away."
The survey,
which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points, was based
on telephone interviews between December 13 and 16 with 1,006 adults living in
the continental United States.
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