[amha]

This study doesn't show that "Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook":

>Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Around four-in-ten (42%) say they have taken a break from checking the platform for a period of several weeks or more, while around a quarter (26%) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone. All told, some 74% of Facebook users say they have taken at least one of these three actions in the past year.

Is this different from what these people have done in the past? I've changed my Facebook privacy settings in the past year––but I've also changed them on a regular basis since getting on Facebook. Likewise, I've always taken regular Facebook breaks in the 13 years I've been on it.

This study is interesting, but it doesn't prove the claim in the headline.

[artemisyna]

I also don't quite understand why "adjusting their privacy settings "is a metric for people changing how they use FB.

FB threw an interstitial in front of people for GDPR. It'd be weird if people didn't change their privacy settings then?