Facebook users were the most educated
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Various social networks have become a place of communication for a multimillion audience of Internet users. The experts decided to find out in which of them communication occurs with the greatest use of abusive words.
As you know, the most popular social networks among Ukrainians are such communities as "Odnoklassniki", "Vkontakte", Facebook, Twitter, "My World". As experts who study the problem of foul language in social networks were able to find out, the most frequent use of non-normative vocabulary occurs in users of Pavel Durov's resource Vkontakte. In addition, it was noted that communicating in the said network use the most limited vocabulary in comparison with other similar resources. In general, according to experts, for every 1000 words in the "Vkontakte" network there are about 17 obscenities.
The second place in terms of bad language is the project Mail.Ru - the social network "My World". To this network is also tied the project "Answers", in which more than half of all users of the resource participate. Apparently the heated debates on the "Answers" go into the category of personal conflicts of users of "My World".
Social networks "Odnoklassniki" and Twitter occupy the third and fourth places according to the level of use by users of profanity when communicating with each other.
Facebook users were the most educated in comparison with other resources. For a thousand words, they average 12.8 unprintable expressions, in addition, they have a broader vocabulary. But, despite this, the audience of Mark Zuckerberg, who is the founder and CEO of the Facebook network, is called the most cynical and aggressive. According to the research, the most evil users of this social network live in Moscow.
Also, during the research conducted by experts, it was found out that in Russia the majority of the audience of all social networks are made up of the fair sex.
