Facebook is the world's largest social networking site. You add friends, post pictures and post statuses. Back in Facebook's early days, the reason for adding friends was "quantity over quality." Meaning, the amount of friends you have was more important than their personality or attitude. But today, most users seem to be more careful about who they add as their "friend". About 63% of adults said they unfriended people in 2011, up from 56% in 2009, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The reasons? A recent survey showed that people get unfriended because they posted offensive comments and/ or lack of interaction (see chart below). "Initially, users have an open embrace of technology," Mary Madden, a researcher at Pew says, "but after some time, it can turn into an awkward hug." Have you ever unfriended someone? Why or why not?
I totally agree that facebook is the world largest social networking site and who knows it could always be. Though, I still think the reason for adding friends on facebook is "quantity over quality." There are people with 1000s of friends on facebook and i totally doubt the fact that they talk to all their friends atleast once a day. Also i feel as if people add random people just to have more friends to feel more popular and I know people who do that. I have unfriended a friend before, but only because they dont update enough and probably because they never use their facebook. Great Post though! Looking forward to reading more
ReplyDeleteI love your post, I think you did a great job :), but another mager reason are, there are Facebook friends with whom you want to share everything with, those you've grown apart from, and those you've barely heard of. (You can assign them to different lists, but then you've introduced a whole new layer of decisions: who belongs where? What qualifies someone to be switched from one list to another? And so on.) There are Twitter followers with whom your acquaintance is strictly professional, those you know from school, but didn't necessarily like, and those who are your dad. Not long ago, many people have realized that some of the contacts started to be thought of as clutter. So to organize these contacts they started unfriendng or unfollowing them. Yes, they only did the ones they don't usually talk to or haven't heard from in a while but they also unfriended them because they just don't like them in general or don't want them seeing what you post. I think you did a great job , but i just wanted to point out the other possibilities.
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