As social media use has become a mainstream activity, and attention to privacy issues has increased, a new study finds that most users of social networking sites choose restricted privacy settings while profile "pruning" and unfriending people is on the rise.
A survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet Project & American Life provides new data about the privacy settings people choose for their social networking profiles, and the specific steps users take to control the flow of information to different people within their networks.
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