Most Facebook Users Have Taken a Break From the Site

The New York Times writes Most Facebook Users Have Taken a Break From the Site, Study Finds

"A new study released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center‘s Internet and American Life Project found that 61 percent of current Facebook users admitted that they had voluntarily taken breaks from the site, for as many as several weeks at a time. The main reason for their social media sabbaticals?

Not having enough time to dedicate to pruning their profiles, an overall decrease in their interest in the site as well as the general sentiment that Facebook was a major waste of time. About 4 percent cited privacy and security concerns as contributing to their departure. Although those users eventually resumed their regular activity, another 20 percent of Facebook users admitted to deleting their accounts."

For me, I really hate the UI and all the noise. There are friends that are over sharers and then there's the constant barrage of things trying to get you to over share. For all the promise of apps I haven't seen much that interested me. It's good for sharing photos and updates with friends. I'm in one group that uses it to plan and schedule meetings in the real world and am surprised more groups don't use it for that. But everything else in the site just annoys me.