Unfriending for Politics: Company Stocks and Social Media Suicide

UN- UN- FRIENDED THIS SEAS N? The Non-Partisan Guide to Social Media Suicide A survey by the Pew Research Center posed a series of questions about people's general use of social network sites for politics and about the ways in which they interact with friends over political material. REASONS FOR UN-FRIENDING DURING ELECTIONS Have blocked someone on a site because they posted something about politics that the user worried would OFFEND Have blocked Have blocked Have blocked someone someone on a site for posting TOO FREQUENTLY about political subjects. someone because they because the DISAGREE with offender ARGUED with a mutual the political issues posted. OTHER FRIENDS online friend 10% 9% 8% 5% WHOGOTBLOCKED? 8+ in 67% 31% blocked a distant friend or acquaintance. 21% blocked a close personal friend blocked a coworker 18% blocked a family member 37% of political users receive negative feedback 75% of users say their friends post political 80 Negative Feedback (37.0%) Online users: 74% 70 70% 60 content. 60% 37% 50 40 30 10 No Negative Feedback (63.0%) Llberal Moderate Conservative COMMENTS Users who have "liked" political posts: 38% of social network users have posted positive COMMENTS in response to a political post or status update from someone else. Very Conservative FOLLOWS Conservative 16% of social network users have friended or followed Yes or No? someone BECAUSE that person shared the user's political views Moderate Yes or No? Liberal Very liberal 22% of social network users say they have decided NOT to post political comments for fear of offending O 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 someone. '99.95% of surveyed company stocks directly correlated with their Facebook 'likes' that day, or in that period' data from: http://pewinternet.org http://npr.org graphic by @The_Atom_Ray image by SeoSalesPro.cCom