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As Privacy Concerns Grow, More Social Media Users Are “Unfriending”
Lauren Goode at AllThingsD writes about a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted in April/May 2011, which sampled more than 2,200 U.S. adults 18 and older. The study found that privacy concerns have increased and that many are being more cautious with their friends and online content.
“More than 60 percent of social media users said last year that they deleted people from their friends lists, up from 56 percent in 2009; and 26 percent of users who keep their profiles private say they apply additional privacy settings to limit what some friends can see.
Profile “pruning” — deleting comments friends leave and untagging photos — is also on the rise, the report says.”
