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More Facebook Friends Equal Fewer Donations
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More Facebook Friends Equal Fewer Donations

A study published in August of 2012 says that people with larger numbers of Facebook friends tend not to spread the news about charities and causes. Study author Kimberley Scharf an economist at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick, says that people with lots of Facebook friends tend to count on others to tell them about opportunities for giving. This phenomenon has a name: “free-riding.”

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