{"id":2977,"date":"2011-05-23T23:52:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T06:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/05\/research-study-proves-that-people-like-to-say-the-word-fuck-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:29:23","slug":"research-study-proves-that-people-like-to-say-the-word-fuck-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/23\/research-study-proves-that-people-like-to-say-the-word-fuck-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Study Proves That People Like To Say The Word &#8220;Fuck&#8221; on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/reppler.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/23\/47-of-facebook-users-have-profanity-on-their-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Reppler Effect<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2011\/0524\/What-Oprah-has-done-for-books\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to read THE REPPLER EFFECT\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/reppler.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.6em; color: #333333; text-decoration: none; margin-top: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px\">47% of Facebook Users Have Profanity on Their\u00a0Wall<\/h2>\n<p><small style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.5em; color: #777777\">By reppler<\/small><\/p>\n<p>It has been a little over a month since we\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reppler.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/05\/time-to-get-your-social-reputation-clean-and-safe\/\" style=\"color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">launched Reppler<\/a>\u00a0so we thought it would be a good time to share some statistics we have collected. \u00a0These statistics, based on the scanning of the Facebook Wall of the over 30,000 users that have used\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reppler.com\/\" style=\"color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">the Reppler service<\/a>\u00a0so far, might be surprising to you:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-indent: -10px\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px\">47% of our users have profanity on their Facebook Wall.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px\">80% of our users who have profanity on their Facebook Wall have at least one post\/comment with profanity from a friend.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px\">56% of the posts\/comments with profanity on a user\u2019s Facebook Wall come from friends.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px\">Users are twice as likely to use profanity in a post on their Facebook Wall, versus a comment. \u00a0Whereas friends are twice as likely to use profanity in a comment on a user\u2019s Facebook Wall, versus a post.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px\">The most common profane word is derivations of the \u201cf-word\u201d. \u00a0The second most common profane word is derivations of the word \u201csh*t\u201d. \u00a0\u201dB*tch\u201d is a distant third.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prevalence of profanity on Facebook Walls is an increasingly important issue as a user\u2019s Facebook profile comes under closer scrutiny, particularly by employers as they screen job applicants. \u00a0Here\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/capitalbusiness\/career-coach-the-use-of-obscenity-at-work\/2011\/05\/04\/AFsp4sRG_story.html\" style=\"color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">a\u00a0recent Washington Post article<\/a>\u00a0that talks about how the use of obscenity in a work environment can impact how others perceive a person.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/reppler.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/23\/47-of-facebook-users-have-profanity-on-their-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at THE REPPLER EFFECT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Reppler Effect 47% of Facebook Users Have Profanity on Their\u00a0Wall By reppler It has been a little over a month since we\u00a0launched Reppler\u00a0so we thought it would be a good time to share some statistics we have collected. \u00a0These statistics, based on the scanning of the Facebook Wall of the over 30,000 users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}