If someone has had a Facebook account for years, there are certainly people on their friends list with whom they have no particular contact and about whom they would like to learn less information than that provided by this particular social networking site.
A new study of students at the University of Colorado Denver attempts to outline the types of people who are most likely to be deleted from online friends.
- To conduct the research, 1077 internet users were asked to answer questionnaires, with the answers highlighting the tendency to first delete people they have known since high school from their friends list.
- In second place is the deletion of acquaintances who fall into the "others" category, while the next most common people with whom Facebook users do not seek to have contact are friends of their friends.
- The top five are completed by people someone has met at work, but also people with whom a user simply connected due to certain common interests.
Researchers claim that frequent, uninteresting posts, as well as comments of a political or religious nature, are the reason why almost one in five people deleted someone they knew from high school.
The team that conducted the research adds that the deletion of a colleague from a Facebook user's friend list appears to be justified by their actions in the real world and not by their posts online.
A second study, conducted in parallel, aims to investigate the reaction of Facebook users when someone deletes them, recording the emotions that are evoked in this case.
The most popular responses given, in order of frequency, are that they feel surprised, annoyed, sad, while some said they were amused, with reactions depending on how close friends they were with the person who deleted them.
Source: planet-greece.blogspot.com
