Band 6+: The chart below shows the main reasons why people choose to make or break friendship connections on a popular social media site. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates the essential ten reasons of adding or removing friends on common social media platforms by percentage.

Overall, we can see from the chart that there are two categories comparing several motives for friending and unfriending. People are far more likely to add someone who know in real life or share mutual friends, while the most common reason to remove a friend on social media is writing an offensive comments. Less significant reasons include Business networks, Don’t know well and Attractiveness.

First of all, the percentage of people who friend others online has a high of 80% while the highest result of those who unfriend is only 50% according to the people posting offensive comments.

In contrast, the increasing friend count was the lowest reason for those who friend people online accounting for around 5% which lack of interaction was less importance reason for people who remove friends and it was measured at about 15 percentage.

Other reasons were between approximately 60% and 11% for adding friends in social media which put them in the middle and these include Business friend and attractiveness. In the other side of breaking friendship connections there are reasons include Don’t know well, depressing comments, and typing to sell something took around 35% and 20%.