Losing Facebook Friends? It May Be Something You Said
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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Are you losing Facebook friends? If so, you may want to look at what you’re posting. A new poll from NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company, reveals that 55 percent of users remove friends because of offensive comments.
Forty-one percent of those surveyed cited a lack of real-life friendship as a common reason for removing users from their friends list. Thirty-nine percent of users said they’re likely to do away with a Facebook friendship because of a solicitation to buy something. Depressing comments were the reason 23 percent of those polled said they remove friends.
Here are some other findings from the survey:
- 82% of respondents add friends because they know them in real life.
- 16% of those surveyed said they use Facebook for dating, and a majority of that percentage was male.
- 8% said they add people to their friends list based simply on physical attractiveness.
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