Are Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends?
Are your Facebook friends your friends in “real life,” as well? Not according to a recent poll by Zogby Analytics on behalf of lifestyle website Living MacTavish, which found that nearly one-third of the 1,000 or so respondents had not met a single one of their Facebook friends face-to-face over the past two months.
Are your Facebook friends your friends in “real life,” as well? Not according to a recent poll by Zogby Analytics on behalf of lifestyle website Living MacTavish, which found that nearly one-third of the 1,000 or so respondents had not met a single one of their Facebook friends face-to-face over the past two months.
When asked for a percentage of Facebook friends they had met with face-to-face over the past two months, respondents answered as follows:
- None: 30 percent of respondents
- 1 percent to 10 percent: 23 percent
- 76 percent to 100 percent: 15 percent
- 11 percent to 25 percent: 13 percent
- 26 percent to 50 percent: 11 percent
- 51 percent to 75 percent: 8 percent
Lifestyle guru and Living MacTavish Founder Susan MacTavish Best said of the poll’s results:
This is even worse than I expected.
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