Liberals Most Likely to Defriend You on Facebook — and in Real Life
If you’ve sensed over the years that your liberal friends are “unfriending” you on Facebook, you might be right.
A new Pew Research study concludes that “consistent liberals” are the most likely ideological group in America to block or defriend someone else because they disagree with that person’s politics.
“Roughly four-in-10 consistent liberals on Facebook have blocked or defriended someone because they disagreed with something that person posted about politics,” write the authors of the study, titled “Political Polarization and Media Habits.”
“This compares with 31 percent of consistent conservatives and just 26 percent of all Facebook users who have done the same,” they add.
The analysis, released yesterday, is part of Pew’s yearlong effort to explain political polarization in America.
The study also finds that liberals are the most likely ideological group to end a personal friendship because of politics.
“Roughly a quarter (24 percent) have done so, compared with 16 percent of consistent conservatives and around 10 percent of those with more mixed political views,” authors Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Jocelyn Kiley and Katerina Eva Matsa write.
If you’ve sensed over the years that your liberal friends are “unfriending” you on Facebook, you might be right.
A new Pew Research study concludes that “consistent liberals” are the most likely ideological group in America to block or defriend someone else because they disagree with that person’s politics.
“Roughly four-in-10 consistent liberals on Facebook have blocked or defriended someone because they disagreed with something that person posted about politics,” write the authors of the study, titled “Political Polarization and Media Habits.”
“This compares with 31 percent of consistent conservatives and just 26 percent of all Facebook users who have done the same,” they add.
The analysis, released yesterday, is part of Pew’s yearlong effort to explain political polarization in America.
The study also finds that liberals are the most likely ideological group to end a personal friendship because of politics.
“Roughly a quarter (24 percent) have done so, compared with 16 percent of consistent conservatives and around 10 percent of those with more mixed political views,” authors Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Jocelyn Kiley and Katerina Eva Matsa write.
