The study conducted by Pew internet reveals that more friends are being ‘deleted’ in Facebook, 63%., a belated recognition that they have befriended people whom they hardly knew.
This could be due to instances coming alight with the ‘friends’ being mostly stalkers and pose a threat.
Another reason could be that the flooding of unwanted messages cluttering the page.
The misuse of Facebook seems to have resulted in fewer people making available their Profile Public-20%.
Women tend to untag their photos at 67%.
A welcome sign .
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There are certain things in life that aren’t meant to be shared,” the Oakland resident said. “If I want to ask about an apartment in New York, I don’t want 1,500 people knowing I’m traveling to New York.”
“Where do we as individuals draw the line?” Watanabe said. “It’s an interesting question and people are starting to ask themselves that.”
About 63 percent of social network users now say they have deleted people from their friends list, an increase from 56 percent in 2009, according to a report from the Pew Research Center of Washington.
Restricted sharing
Also, 58 percent of users set their main profiles to be seen only by a private group of friends or relatives, while 19 percent choose at least some level of privacy settings to control what certain friends can view, the center’s Internet & American Life Project found. Only 20 percent make their profiles completely public.
And the portion of people who have untagged themselves from photos on social-networking sites – predominantly Facebook, but also including Twitter and other services – rose to 37 percent, from 30 percent in 2009.
“Women tend to have stronger feelings regarding who has access to their personal information,” said Mary Madden, a Pew senior research specialist.
The report said 67 percent of women restrict access to friends only, compared with 48 percent of men, possibly because of concerns about online predators and other safety issues. Only 14 percent of women choose to make their profiles completely public, compared with 26 percent of men.
On the other hand, men are nearly twice as likely as women (15 to 8 percent) to regret something they posted on Facebook.
The Pew report, based on interviews with 2,277 adults from April 26 to May 22, 2011, was released coincidentally at the end of a week when online privacy became a major topic in tech”
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