
If you’ve had it up to here with political posts and discussions on social platforms, you are not alone, according to Pew Research Center.
A recent Pew survey of U.S. adults found that 46% of social media users feel “worn out” by the number of political posts and discussions they encounter on social networks, up nine percentage points from the last time Pew asked the same question, during the summer of 2016.
Meanwhile, 15 percent of respondents like seeing political posts on social media, while 38% didn’t feel strongly one way or the other.
Pew senior researcher Monica Anderson and computational social scientist Dennis Quinn wrote in a blog post, “Well over a year before the 2020 presidential election, many social media users in the U.S. are already exhausted by how much political content they see on these platforms.”
The research group also broke out its findings by race and political affiliation.
Pew found that 52% of white social media users said they were worn out by political posts, while just 36% of nonwhites expressed the same sentiment.