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Women More Likely to Unfriend

They're also a lot more cautious with their content

By Tim Karan,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 25, 2012 11:23 AM CST

(Newser) – Women are the less fair sex when it comes to social networking. Ladies are a little more likely to delete friends on sites like Facebook and Twitter than gentlemen are, and a lot more likely to keep their pages private, reports AFP. A Pew Research Center study found that 67% of women say they've deleted friends compared to 58% of men, and women are 19% more likely to set their profile to private.

The study says that deleting friends is more common than it was in 2009, up from 56% of people who maintain profiles to 63% last year. However, 67% of women said they've clicked "remove" compared to 58% of men. Almost six out of 10 users keep their profiles set so only friends can see it, and two out of 10 let the world in. Only 11% of those surveyed said they posted a status update, comment, photo, or video they later wished they hadn't, but perhaps unsurprising to some, men are almost twice as likely to do so.

Women are more likely to unfriend you online according to a recent study.
Women are more likely to unfriend you online according to a recent study.   (Shutterstock)
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summerfairy
Feb 25, 2012 4:28 PM CST
women lie on surveys. 
NutsInNY
Feb 25, 2012 12:42 PM CST
And small town Cartoon Conservative women are more likely to leave a hysterical string of profanity on your FB page before they hit 'unfriend'---stuff that's offensive to your respectable Friends on both the right and the left.
04052063
Feb 25, 2012 12:35 PM CST
I wonder, in general, who has the bigger social group. Women or men.  My hypothesis (which i have no way of testing) is that women have a larger friend circle than men.
 

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