{"id":641722,"date":"2013-02-07T17:26:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=128996"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:26:44","slug":"more-americans-take-facebook-vacations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641722","title":{"rendered":"More Americans take Facebook vacations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Facebook-Wall-600x417.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Facebook Wall\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-119846\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not on the social network but <i>away from it<\/i>. Bad for Facebook: The youngest, and presumably most active users, are the most likely to step away this year for prolonged breaks, according to Pew Internet. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sixty-one percent 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&#8221;, according to report &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/~\/media\/\/Files\/Reports\/2013\/PIP_Coming_and_going_on_facebook.pdf\" >Coming and Going on Facebook<\/a>&#8220;, which published this week. <\/p>\n<p>This year, Americans 18-29 are least likely to spend more time on the service (1 percent) and most likely to take a break (38 percent). By comparison, among those over 50, only 17 percent plan breaks, while 4 percent plan do use the social network more. For each group 61 percent and 78 percent, respectively, expect activity to be unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 61 percent of Facebook vacationers, reasons vary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conflicting activities &#8212; 21 percent<\/li>\n<li>Lack of interest &#8212; 10 percent<\/li>\n<li>Content not compelling &#8212; 10 percent<\/li>\n<li>Too much drama, gossip &#8212; 9 percent<\/li>\n<li>Spending too much time &#8212; 8 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some of the verbatim thoughts from those who took Facebook breaks include the following: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I was tired of stupid comments&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;[I had] crazy friends. I did not want to be contacted&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I took a break when it got boring&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It was not getting me anywhere&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Too much drama&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou get burned out on it after a while&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I gave it up for Lent.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I was fasting&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;People were [posting] what they had for dinner&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I didn\u2019t like being monitored&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I got harassed by someone from my past who looked me up&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don\u2019t like their privacy policy&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li\"It caused problems in my [romantic] relationship\".<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While 67 percent of American adults use Facebook, 20 percent of respondents left the service altogether. Some others who stay use it less: &#8220;Some 42 percent of Facebook users ages 18-29 and 34 percent of those ages 30-49 say that the time they spend on Facebook on a typical day has decreased over the last year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To emphasize, younger adults are a core demographic for the service and coveted by advertisers. This is not a group Facebook should want to lose, whether they cut back or take a vacation from the service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scobleizer\/\" >Robert Scoble<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=wCxqnH6Ubrw:1pABOwcYyIg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=wCxqnH6Ubrw:1pABOwcYyIg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/wCxqnH6Ubrw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not on the social network but away from it. Bad for Facebook: The youngest, and presumably most active users, are the most likely to step away this year for prolonged breaks, according to Pew Internet. &#8220;Sixty-one percent of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in the past they have voluntarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}