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Facebook Users Found Taking a Break: Pew

Hundreds of millions of Americans use Facebook, but many are taking a break, new research shows.

By Marc Rapport | Updated on February 11, 2013

Hundreds of millions of Americans use Facebook, but many are taking a break, new research shows.

Taking a “Facebook vacation” was cited by 21% of the respondents to a Pew Research Center Internet & American Life survey on usage of the social media site the center says is used by two-thirds of online American adults.

Pew researchers said they found “considerable fluidity” in the Facebook user population, including 61% of current users who said they have stopped using it at times for a period of several weeks or more.

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