SocNet Users Enhance Relationships, Lose Inhibitions

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  • 42.6% of respond­ents say they feel less inhib­ited inter­acting online than face-​​to-​​face.
  • 20% say they lashed out at com­panies or products thanks to the anonymity of online interaction.
  • 31.5% say that online inter­ac­tion let them do some­thing they’d been wanting to do.
  • via marketingcharts.com

    Research from Euro RSCG suggests (as you’d have guessed) that people become ‘dis­in­hib­ited’ as a con­sequence of an increased ability to interact with brands, products and people.

    There’s a positive element to this, of course. Being inhib­ited is by no means a pure good.

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