The presented bar graph illustrates the proportion of several factors why people tend to start or end a friendship connections on a specific social media platform. Overall, it is immediately apparent that the most popular reasons for people start a new friendship connection is because they have known each other in real life, whereas offensive comments is most likely the reason why social media users decide to end the connection.
There are more than 80% of social media users agree that real life connection is the best reason why someone make a friendship connection, followed by 60% of users reported that mutual friends is their main reason. However, attractiveness and increasing friend count are the two reasons that around 8% of people agree with. Meanwhile, there are about 11% of people choose business networks as their reason.
On the other hand, the factors of people delete their firendship connection are various, with offensive comments as the highest chosen reason. Moreover, there are approximately 41% people say they don’t know the person well and roughly 28% of them reported that they unfollowed a specific user because they are trying to sell something. In contrast, depressing comments is the reason why roughly 21% of people unfollowed someone. Furthermore, only 20% of social media user agree that lack of interaction is the main factor.