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February 6, 2013 01:28 am GMT

Most of Us Take Facebook Breaks, Then We Come Back


The Pew Research Center released a survey on Facebook Tuesday, and it's causing quite a stir. The reason? It found 61% of Facebook users have at some point "taken a break" from the world's top social network. Facebook is leaking users! Sound the alarm!

Nah, not really. The closer you look at the study, the less of a big deal this statistic seems. First of all, it's a fairly small sample size. Pew reached 1,006 adults in the continental U.S. by phone during three days in December. Some 860 of them use the Internet, and 525 use Facebook.

Those 525 were asked if they had "voluntarily taken a break from using Facebook for a period of several weeks or more" -- not just in the last year, bu…
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