Survey: Facebook Turns Friends into Lovers
Survey: Facebook Turns Friends into Lovers
Posted 11/16/2010 at 9:16am
| by Paul Lilly
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Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, isn't a dating site, but that doesn't mean some of its 500+ million members don't sometimes treat it as one. OnePoll.com conducted a survey of 2,000 adults and, among other things, discovered that 11 percent of British Facebookers 'poked' (or got poked by) someone they met through Facebook, according to AllFacebook.
That's not all. Nearly half -- 46 percent -- said they sent illicit texts to someone other than their partner, while 35 percent included naked photos of themselves in said texts.
This should hardly be surprising, that is unless you were expecting the figure to be higher. A recent survey in Men's Health revealed some related stats, such as 27 percent of Facebookers failing to list their relationship status with only half of them being single. And 24 percent of those surveyed said they flirt with someone on Facebook other than their current partners.
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MyMojo
November 16, 2010 at 5:01pm
I'm lost. Could someone define "poke" for me. I'm new at that sort of stuff... ;-)
violian
November 16, 2010 at 11:29am
The first girl I had ever dated was initiated through Facebook messages, so yeah, this is totally believable. If it wasn't FB, it would've been text messages or IM.
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