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About a Third of Americans Have Left an Online Community

Pew Research Center · Colleen McClain, Jeffrey Gottfried, Eugenie Park, Michelle Faverio, Olivia Sidoti and Monica Anderson · last updated

Online communities can draw people in with shared interests, support or a sense of belonging. But for some Americans, these spaces aren’t forever, according to a new Pew Research Center survey from the Pew-Knight Initiative. About a third of U.S. adults say they have ever left an online community, according to the survey conducted May 

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