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Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men

Posted by timothy on from the culling-the-herd dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "AFP reports that a study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project shows that women are more likely than men to delete friends from their online social networks like Facebook and tend to choose more restrictive privacy settings. Sixty-seven percent of women who maintain a social networking profile said they have deleted friends compared with 58 percent of men. The study also found that men are nearly twice as likely as women to have posted updates, comments, photos or videos that they later regret (PDF). 'Even as social media users become more active curators of their profile, a small group of what might be described as trigger-happy users say they post updates, comments, photos, or videos that they later regret sharing.'"

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  1. Nothing to see here by dugjohnson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "The study also found that men are nearly twice as likely as women to have posted updates, comments, photos or videos that they later regret " or "Men more impulsive than women" Hmmm. Big surprise there.

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    1. Re:Nothing to see here by __aarzwb9394 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Does this reflect higher concern re stalking (in the spectrum from the dangerous, life ruining/threatening kind to I don't want an old boyfriend to know about me)?
      Seems likely to me.
      I bet those of us worried about privacy in a big brother, what-can-future-employers-find-out-about-me way are more male than female, since that's probably correlated with higher computer literacy.

    2. Re:Nothing to see here by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Insightful

      More like "Women less regretful than men, more likely to blame others."

      That's possibly true. Socially women are seen as victims if people misuse or ogle their pictures, where as men are seen as "fair game". This would certainly encourage women to feel "poor me, I din nothing wrong its all these nasty people", whereas men would think "oh how could I have been so dumb".

  2. The flipside of that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Women are more likely to friend people they'll end up unfriending later.

  3. Social exclusion is a femal strategy by qualityassurancedept · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Female's all over the animal kingdom use social exclusion instead of violence in order to punish other females. Exclusion is the primary competitive strategy for all sorts of female animals. Look it up on Wikipedia. Or google it. Its a widely known fact among researchers in the social science. That's how teenage girls bully each other.

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    1. Re:Social exclusion is a femal strategy by Just+Brew+It! · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ...and never assume malice where incompetence will suffice. You'll get through life with a lot less conflict that way.

  4. That's because women are more emotionally hostile by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look at any social group of young teenage girls today. They're the most vile, wretched, undisciplined, emotionally hostile human beings that walk the face of the Earth today. They think nothing of torturing their peers emotionally to the point of suicide.

    Women want their enemies to suffer socially and emotionally.