A study released Monday by the Pew Research Center charts the habits of Facebook users. Shocker: People don't like it when their friends over-share. February 3, 2014 11:04 AM PST (Credit: Facebook) Facebook is a decade old tomorrow, and ten years of Facebook means there's been a lot of time for folks to build up habits when using the social network. The Pew Research center on Monday released a study taking a look at Facebook, and what people like and dislike about the service. According to the study, the two most irksome things about the network both, in some form, have to do with the types of things people share. Thirty-six percent dislike when friends post too much info about themselves. This is presumably more an annoyance in people's feeds being cluttered by mundane posts about what a friend had for breakfast. This is indeed annoying, but 36 percent also have another reasonable gripe when it comes to over-sharing: having friends share information about you -- like photos or check-ins -- without first asking permission. Related posts Facebook pisses off other Paper maker Change your Facebook privacy settings with a click Facebook delivers Paper to iPhone Facebook's failed features (pictures) Paper and the craft of securing Facebook's future Another common trope about Facebook is how it ignites a tinge of jealousy, when people see others having fun without them -- brunch again! -- finding out they were not included. Turns out that fear of missing out only really affects a small minority of users, just 5 percent of those surveyed. But jealousy may come into play another way. Twelve percent of Facebook users have been asked to de-friend someone on their network. (The figure jumps up to 19 percent when looking specifically at 18 to 29-year-olds.) Twenty-two percent of all users who have been asked to de-friend someone say that the request was specifically made to cut Facebook ties with a former romantic partner. Some other tidbits of note: While many people "Like" and post comments to photos regularly, only 10 percent change their statuses daily. Facebook as a company has also been making a bigger push in private messaging: even introducing a direct messaging feature for Instagram, the photo-sharing app it owns. According to the Pew survey, 19 percent of users send private Facebook messages on a daily basis.
A study released Monday by the Pew Research Center charts the habits of Facebook users. Shocker: People don't like it when their friends over-share.
(Credit: Facebook)
Facebook is a decade old tomorrow, and ten years of Facebook means there's been a lot of time for folks to build up habits when using the social network. The Pew Research center on Monday released a study taking a look at Facebook, and what people like and dislike about the service.
According to the study, the two most irksome things about the network both, in some form, have to do with the types of things people share. Thirty-six percent dislike when friends post too much info about themselves. This is presumably more an annoyance in people's feeds being cluttered by mundane posts about what a friend had for breakfast. This is indeed annoying, but 36 percent also have another reasonable gripe when it comes to over-sharing: having friends share information about you -- like photos or check-ins -- without first asking permission.
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Another common trope about Facebook is how it ignites a tinge of jealousy, when people see others having fun without them -- brunch again! -- finding out they were not included. Turns out that fear of missing out only really affects a small minority of users, just 5 percent of those surveyed.
But jealousy may come into play another way. Twelve percent of Facebook users have been asked to de-friend someone on their network. (The figure jumps up to 19 percent when looking specifically at 18 to 29-year-olds.) Twenty-two percent of all users who have been asked to de-friend someone say that the request was specifically made to cut Facebook ties with a former romantic partner.
Some other tidbits of note: While many people "Like" and post comments to photos regularly, only 10 percent change their statuses daily. Facebook as a company has also been making a bigger push in private messaging: even introducing a direct messaging feature for Instagram, the photo-sharing app it owns. According to the Pew survey, 19 percent of users send private Facebook messages on a daily basis.
