26 Percent of Americans Give #DeleteFacebook a Try

Facebook had one.47 billion daily active users as of June 2022, but at least a few need a time out from the social media behemoth.

Virtually 26 percentage of U.s.a. Facebook users take uninstalled the Facebook app from their phones in the last twelvemonth, co-ordinate to a Pew Inquiry Centre survey.

The poll was taken from between May 29 to June xi, at a time when social media behemothic was still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Every bit many as 87 meg Facebook users may take had their data harvested past a UK political consultancy used by pinnacle GOP political campaigns, including President Trump'southward.

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According to Pew, the Facebook app exodus was higher among the younger generation. "Most notably, 44 percent of younger users (those ages 18 to 29) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their phone in the past year, near iv times the share of users ages 65 and older (12 percent) who have done so."

A larger share of Americans besides appear to exist abstaining from constant Facebook employ; 42 percent of the respondents reported "taking a break" from checking in with Facebook for a period of several weeks or more.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Facebook's attempts to address it, may have also prompted more Americans to alter their privacy settings on the platform. Pew's survey found that 54 percentage of the respondents had adapted their Facebook privacy preferences.

"Older users are much less likely to say they have adjusted their Facebook privacy settings in the past 12 months: Only a third of Facebook users 65 and older have washed this, compared with 64 per centum of younger users," the center added.

Pew released the poll—which involved 4,594 respondents and 3,413 Facebook users—months after it establish signs that United states of america teenagers were leaving Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat.

In April, consulting firm Creative Strategies polled 1,000 Americans and constitute that 17 percent had uninstalled the Facebook app from their smartphones; 9 percent had deleted their account altogether.