About two-thirds, or 63 percent, of social networking site SNS.L users questioned in the Pew Research Center poll said they had deleted people from their “friends” lists, up from 56 percent in 2009.
Another 44 percent said they had deleted comments that others have made on their profiles, up from 36 percent two years before.
Users also have become more likely to remove their names from photos that were tagged to identify them. Thirty-seven percent of profile owners have done that, up from 30 percent in 2009, the survey showed.
“Over time, as social networking sites have become a mainstream communications channel in everyday life, profile owners have become more active managers of their profiles and the content that is posted by others in their networks,” the report said.