Saturday, July 23, 2011

Social media butterflies just can’t take a break: Even on vacation, they feel pressure to feed the Facebook and Twitter beasts

The Boston Globe reports:
in a recent online survey of 1,000 US adults, 54 percent say they use social media on vacation, up from 28 percent in 2010. The survey was commissioned by Marriott.

Expectations for staying in touch are so high that some people feel the need to send out a preemptive variation of the “out of the office’’ auto response.