Facebook privacy. Twitter security. Foursquare stalker-tools. As social networks continue to insert themselves into everything from important things like family, business, and politics to mundane things such as eating habits and movie ratings, the users are becoming increasingly concerned that they aren’t receiving what they expected. Those who have been in it for a while are losing trust in what is happening. Those who are coming in now are guarded and skeptical.
It still doesn’t change the fact that we’re in it, most of us are staying, and those who aren’t in it probably will be soon.
Below, you’ll find an Infographic by Flowtown.com on Online Identities that visually demonstrates how we use and monitor our profiles and offers answers to several survey questions asked via phone interviews performed by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
Perhaps the most telling statistic listed is that only 12% of those surveyed believe they can trust social networking sites all or most of the time.
Despite this, they still grow and few are leaving completely. They might leave one and spend more time on another, but if you’re an adult with an Internet connection, you probably have at least one social media profile that you check at least occasionally.
We’re hooked.
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