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Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men

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

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

  2. Groucho by Wildplasser · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want to be friends with people who have people like me as friends.

  3. 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.