Posted on 05/22/2017 12:40:35 PM PDT by daniel1212
... When a new Barna survey asked U.S. adults if they ever get in arguments on social media, more than half (55%) say never. A quarter (24%) say it’s a rare occurrence, while one in five argue online at least sometimes (21%)...
Along party lines, Republicans (8%) and Democrats (5%) are more likely to report frequent disagreements than Independents (.4%),..
three out of 10 (30%) full-time workers report arguing online at least sometimes, far more than the retired (12%) or unemployed (10%). Interestingly, parents with young children at home are five times as likely as those with no children under 18 to admit often clashing with a cyber friend (11% compared to 2%)...
White adults generally are engaged in more social media squabbles; they are 10 percentage points more likely than all non-white adults to report getting into social media arguments sometimes or often (25% vs. 15%)...
Sixteen percent of practicing Catholics say they frequently argue on social media—the highest percentage of any faith segment. Practicing Protestants, on the other hand, are pretty conflict-averse, with six in 10 saying they never have this experience (compared to 41% of practicing Catholics). Evangelicals [whom Barna defines by a doctrinal criteria] ...claim to mostly bite their tongue; seven in 10 evangelicals (70%) say they never argue on social media...
What’s the most common reason for social media spats? “They started it!” Among those who argue at least rarely, more than one-quarter (26%) credit an argument to a stranger who didn’t like what they posted, while one in five (22%) say someone they know challenged them...
college graduates (25%), conservatives (23%), those of no faith (23%) and men (22%) demonstrate a willingness to pick fights with people they don’t know. Meanwhile, black adults (32%), notional Christians (24%), those with a high school education or less (24%) and women (23%) are prone to go to battle in defense of others...
Ping
WHAT?!?
EXACTLY WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING?!?!?
I’VE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF THIS!!!!!
You trying to start trouble?
;-)
Are you talkin’ to me?
I don’t like the title. A lot of people have civil and useful arguments online which don’t equate with ‘fighting’.
I don’t believe this survey. The daily anecdotal examples of extreme, vicious, and hair-trigger combativeness, threats, and crudity of Democrats (California Dem Convention members led in a middle-finger-raising, obscenity laced chant directed at our president by the party chair from the podium, i.e.) is so prevalent, no other group can possibly come close.
IOW, BS
LOL
Nobody fights online. It’s just a case of that OTHER idiot not knowing that they are wrong and refusing to listen to instruction. Geez. /s
Plenty of statistics about Christians only.
Garbage survey.
You got it, Cap!
Thems fightin’ words!
(I picked you because you've been here longer than the others) 8~)
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