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Study: Facebook fatigue -- it's real


It's not just you. Tuning out Facebook for weeks at a time is commonplace, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which found that a majority of the current Facebook users it surveyed have at one time or another tired to the point of avoiding the social-networking site.


Pew used Princeton Survey Research Associates International to conduct the actual telephone interviews with a representative sample of 1,006 adults in the U.S.


The Pew study found that 61 percent of the Facebook users who responded have taken extended, weeks-long breaks from the site. Those who have taken Facebook sabbaticals did so for the obvious reasons: 21 percent were too busy, 10 percent lost interest, and 10 percent felt it was a waste of time.


(Credit: Pew Research) The verbatim comments that Pew recorded sound like overheards at coffee shops across the country. Here are a few:



  • "I was tired of stupid comments."

  • "[I had] crazy friends. I did not want to be contacted."

  • "I took a break when it got boring."

  • "It was not getting me anywhere."

  • "Too much drama."

  • "People were [posting] what they had for dinner."

  • "I don't like their privacy policy."

  • "It caused problems in my [romantic] relationship."


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by Jennifer Van Grove via CNET


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