Why Do Users Leave Facebook?

We all have one or two friends who have used Facebook and left the site. Do those people share some fundamental trait?

Not according to a new study from Cornell University, which found various reasons for leaving Facebook and a range of practices that allow users to engage with the social network to greater or lesser degrees.

“One participant described redirecting all email from Facebook to an email address that he never checked. Others installed browser plugins that blocked them from visiting the site,” said