3.3.3. Group membership
Although Facebook users can create or join groups, and many of them reported that they did so, active participation in these
groups was rare. In the survey, the mean number of groups that students reported belonging to was 24.58 (SD = 13.12) and the
median was 25.50 (six outliers were removed from the high end of the distribution). However, over half of all students (52.17%)reported that they did not interact with groups in theweek prior to completing the survey and they interacted on average less than
one day a week with a group. The majority of students reported never using groups inways that might be expected, including as a
forum to discuss serious topics (79.55%), to talk to people with similar interests (75.00%), to express opinions or interests (61.36%),
or to connect with others from a real world group (47.73%).