This is the link below:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/26/facebook.facts.cashmore/index.html?hpt=T2
According to this article 56% of Facebook members think that is not responsible to friend your boss on Facebook. I agree if I had a Facebook I wouldn't friend my boss because it would probably be filled with pictures of me partying and acting crazy. Which is not something I would want my boss to see. It also said that people in Facebook relationships are happier then single people. I disagree I'm not single, but when I am I'm just as happy as I would be if I were in a relationship. Another interesting fact is that 21% of people would breakup via Facebook. This is sad I hope this 21% is predominately teenagers because that has to be really embarrassing to get dump with millions of people to see. The last fact that caught my attention was that 36% of people checked their Facebook,twitts, and texts after sex , which is just rude and embarrassing for their partners
I agree that it's pretty distressing that 21% of people would break up with their significant other via Facebook. What's even worse is that the method is probably a switch of status from "in a relationship" to "single." I've never been dumped over Facebook, but I can only imagine how humiliating and insulting it would be. Not only do you have to deal with your own emotional reaction to the news, but everyone else who is your friend on Facebook would be repeatedly asking you what happened. I feel like one of the consequences of bringing friendships and relationships to the online social network world is that people don't really take them as seriously as they used to. "I'm going to unfriend you if you do that" is becoming like a social threat, which just seems so strange to me.
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