Most of us have taken a Facebook break — then been sucked back in

In many ways, your Facebook account is like a real-life friend: You tell it about your day, you share photos with it, and sometimes you just need to spend time apart from it for the sake of your sanity. A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 61 percent of Facebook-using Americans said that at some point they've voluntarily avoided using Facebook for several weeks. The main reason for this was being too busy, but respondents also took a break because they weren't interested, or because it felt like a "waste of time." Surely those photos of your friends' babies and status updates from high-school buddies you haven't seen in years are never a waste of time?! [Source]

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