Frequent Facebook users more likely to lose friends.

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-10-09 04:46

  People glued to Facebook for hours are more likely to lose friends on the social networking site.
  
  Researchers found that friends' frequent posts about nothing in particular were most likely to lead to a severing of online ties. This was followed by comments about polarising topics like religion and politics.
  
  Computer scientist Christopher Sibona, who surveyed more than 1,500 Facebook users on Twitter to get to the bottom of the new phenomenon of 'unfriending', said: "The 100th post about your favourite band is no longer interesting."
  
  "They say not to talk about religion or politics at office parties and the same thing is true online," he added.
  
  Inappropriate posts such as crude or racist comments were the third reason for the severing of relationships, reports the Telegraph.
  
  The study also showed 57 percent of those surveyed unfriended for online reasons while 26.9 percent did so for offline behaviour.
  
  Sibona, a PhD student at Colorado University in the US, observed a sort of online hierarchy of dominant and subordinate relationships.
  
  For example, those making friend requests stood a much higher chance of being abruptly unfriended. At the same time, those doing the unfriending seemed to hold the upper hand in the relationship.
  
  With over 500 million users worldwide, Facebook has become a global phenomenon, a vast cyber neighbourhood where friends meet to share photos, news and gossip.
  
  It is when those relationships turn sour that 'unfriending' occurs - something those unfamiliar with social networking sites may not have heard of but that was chosen by the New Oxford American Dictionary as its 2009 Word of the Year.
  
  Sibona said making friends on Facebook is a delicate dance with its own rules or "nettiquette" - far different from face-to-face interaction.
  

  
  
  Frequent Facebook users more likely to lose friends
  
  This is very ironic
  but the title of the article is somewhat misleading
• Kazuni wrote on 2010-10-09 04:49
  It's somewhat true.
• Andy-Buddy wrote on 2010-10-09 04:54
  I sure have 'unfriended' before.
• hengsheng120 wrote on 2010-10-09 05:19
  I hate facebook with disgust and anger because some things cannot be unthinked or unseen. I hate it and only go on when a friend specifically asks, for courtesy. Just one (boy/girl)friend can contaminate your innocent view of facebook. Now I always get angry and think to myself when i go on "WTF I don't want to know about your personal trivial sh*t!". You can say someone did torture my feelings and forever changed my view of facebook. I used to really like it just for the ease of finding other people, mind you. Unfortunately, Facebook is the place where you'll eventually find the true meaning of "ignorance is bliss" if you haven't done so yet.
• Arus wrote on 2010-10-09 06:05
  This article explains every single factor that led to my "unfriending" one of my teachers. Every. Single. Factor.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-10-09 06:17
  Posting about a controversial topic on the Internet IN GENERAL is a bad idea.
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-10-09 07:01
  Lol I'm friends with my old english teacher and he says its kinda weird going through kids that graduated pictures and watching em drinking/drunk. (He only adds people after they graduated)
  
  But hell the only person I ever un-friended is my mom XDD and she yells at me for that and this creeper who kept commenting on my stuff and what my friends (those he didn't know) said. Sooo annoying x_x
• Zid wrote on 2010-10-09 15:37
  I don't check mine often, so I can't tell, haha.
  
  But I'm too lazy to unfriend people.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-10-11 17:08
  I don't check mine often. I don't really add people that often either. They add me because they found me somehow. I do try paying attention once in a while, at least.
• Skye wrote on 2010-10-11 17:23
  I've only ever unfriended 2 people. One because she posted something horrible about religion & Michael Jackson right after his death (I love MJ), and the other because he was a creeper, even in real life. >_>
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-10-13 19:01
  I thought about deleting someone. I got really close but then decided to give them another chance. I'll see how that goes. >_>
• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-10-13 19:05
  Don't go on facebook enough to unfriend people :D