Need a Facebook vacation? You're not alone. A new study shows a majority of people have taken a break from Facebook at some point.
According to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, 67 percent of American adults use Facebook,and of those, 61 percent have taken a multi-week vacation from the popular social media site.
"People are trying to make new calibrations in their life to accommodate new social tools," Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project and a co-author of the new report told Yahoo News. "For some, the central calculation is how they spend their time. For others, it's more of a social reckoning as they ask themselves, 'What are my friends doing and thinking, and how much does that matter to me?' They are adding up the pluses and minuses on a kind of networking balance sheet."
The survey also revealed the reasons why people decided to take a break from the site. A majority, 21 percent, said they did it because they were too busy to spend time on the site. Ten percent said they lost interest in the site, 10 percent said they were bored by the site's lack of compelling content, 9 percent were sick of the gossip and drama among their friend and 8 percent simply thought they were devoting too much time to the site and a break was needed.
While a huge majority admitted to taking a break from the site, some claimed that they quit it altogether. According to the study, 20 percent of online adults said they used to use Facebook but no longer do.
That doesn't mean Facebook will see steady drop in users. Eight percent of adults told Pew that they don't use the site right now but they are interested in becoming users soon.
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