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why am i reading fb messages on my phone when i’m using tumblr on my laptop with facebook open in the next tab? an autobiography by me.
[View the story "Millennials at Work" on Storify]
No surprise: Millennials are like everyone else, only more so: based on research by Cornerstone.
In case you missed it, here's a Storify of our Facebook chat last week on the subject of...Facebook.
Senior researcher Aaron Smith discussed the 61% of Facebook users that say they have taken a break from the site, and answers your questions about the study.
Pew's most disconcerting finding, at least if you're betting on Facebook's long-term success, underscores what the social network warned its investors about last week: the cool kids are so over Facebook. According to the survey, 38 percent of Facebook users ages 18 to 29 say that in 2013 they expect to spend less time using the site.
CNET: Facebook Fatigue -- It's Real
Our latest study finds that 61% of Facebook users have taken a break -- sometimes for weeks or months -- from the site.
Have you ever taken a "break" from Facebook?
The latest Internet report from the Pew Research Center finds that 61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in the past they have voluntarily taken a break from using Facebook for a period of several weeks or more.
Here's why:
"People were posting what they had for dinner."
“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.”
“You get burned out on it after a while.”
“I gave it up for Lent.”
“I was fasting.”
“People were [posting] what they had for dinner.”
“I didn’t like being monitored.”
“I got harassed by someone from my past who looked me up.”
“I don’t like their privacy policy.”
“It caused problems in my [romantic] relationship.
-- Verbatim reasons for taking extended breaks from Facebook, as per our latest Pew Internet study, Coming and Going on Facebook.