On balance Facebook does more harm than good.
Are you worried about your popularity? The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and women tend to have somewhat more than men. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people only interact regularly with 4 to 7 people. ..
Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook
A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook users — 70% of whom were male — found that 25% had been “dumped” via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship status).
Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to “single.” While worrisome, the survey does show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook.
PD: This photo is from a genuine FB status. (Link)
Facebook, the popular social networking website, provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it yanked photos of breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal profiles because it deemed them a little too revealing. This, by the way, from a website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples making out; it has even accepted paid advertising for a dating website that featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted the hypocrisy.)
In response to the terse notices alerting mothers that they were violating Facebook’s decency policy, “lactivists” responded with a virtual nurse-in; 11,000 women posted photos of themselves breastfeeding and/or updated their profiles to read: “Hey, Facebook. Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!”
The pro-breastfeeding group has attracted over 250,000 members.(Link 1 | Link 2)
Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces
It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in thenumber of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating. (Link)
Al Pacino was the first ‘face’ on Facebook.
36% of users check Facebook, Twitter or texts after sex
Over 350million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder
Facebook users have lower grades than non-users
A man was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook
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