Jewish Singles Will Clean Out Their Facebook Friends Before Cleaning Home for Passover: Poll

Jewcier.com Singles Prepare for The Holiday by Deleting and DeFriending Ex's

2012-03-29

MIAMI, FL, March 29, 2012 (Press-News.org) While most Jewish women and men spend the days leading up to Passover scrubbing their floors, cleaning the dirt from their homes, and banishing their kitchens of every single crumb, Jewish singles are using this time of the year to clean out their social lives.

According to a poll conducted by Jewish dating site, Jewcier (http://www.jewcier.com), Jewish singles will use Passover as an excuse to clean out their cell phone contacts and declutter their Facebook accounts. In a new poll of more than 1,120 Jewish singles, 68% of women, and 65% of men said that cleaning out their Facebook friends, and their cell phone contacts, was the most important thing to clean before Passover.

"Most of the attention given to Passover surrounds what foods we can and cannot eat, how to clean our homes, who to invite for the holidays, and where to spend the Seder. But we were curious how today's Jewish singles approached this holiday, and the results we discovered were very interesting," said Shira Kallus, Relationship Advisor for Jewcier. "What we found is that, when it comes to Passover priorities, Jewish singles have traded the traditional priorities with modern, non-traditional ones. Specifically, Jewish singles are more interested in ridding their Facebook from unwanted friends, and ex boyfriend's or girlfriends, rather than spending their time cleaning their homes from dirt and their kitchens from Chametz."

Follows are the complete poll results:

Question: What's the most important thing I clean out before Passover?

Men:
My Facebook and cell phone: 65%
Car: 15%
Apartment: 12%
Office: 8%

Women:
My Facebook and cell phone: 68%
Apartment: 20%
Office: 11%
Car: 1%

Question: Why clean out your Facebook and cell phone before Passover?

Men:
Passover is a great time to completely clean out your life! 66%
Passover is not the time to focus on cleaning out your Facebook/cell phone: 34%

Women:
Passover is a great time to completely clean out your life! 73%
Passover is not the time to focus on cleaning out your Facebook/cell phone: 27%

Question: Will you spend more time cleaning out your Facebook or cell phone?

Men:
Cell phone: 75%
Facebook: 25%

Women:
Facebook: 85%
Cell phone: 15%

Question: How do you determine who will be cleaned out of your Facebook friends list?

Men:
Ex-girlfriends: 45%
Co-workers who I'm not really friends with: 25%
High School friends who have friended me but have never written to me or commented on my posts: 18%
Anyone who has me set to limited profile viewing access: 12%

Women:
Ex-boyfriends: 58%
Anyone who has me set to limited profile viewing access: 29%
High School friends who have friended me but have never written to me or commented on my posts: 10%
Co-workers who I'm not really friends with: 3%

Question: How will you clean out your cell phone contacts?

Men:
Keep all contacts, best way to avoid certain calls: 50%
Delete anyone that's now married: 25%
Delete ex's: 15%
Google/look up their online dating profiles. Delete if profiles don't interest me: 10%

Women:
Delete ex's: 58%
Keep all contacts, best way to avoid certain calls: 33%
Delete anyone that's now married: 6%
Google/look up their online dating profiles. Delete if profiles don't interest me: 3%

About Avalanche, LLC
A leader in the online dating space, Avalanche operates a network of eighteen general and niche websites. Date.com, it's flagship brand, was launched on Valentine's Day 1997, and is one of the worlds most popular dating sites. Acquired in 2006, Matchmaker.com is the longest running dating site on the internet targeted to singles looking for a serious relationship. Amor.com, launched in 2007, is the leader in Latin dating and attracts Hispanics in the United States, Central and South America. Recently, the company entered the Jewish online dating space with Jewcier.com. A relative newcomer to the market, Jewcier is already one of the top 10 Jewish sites, and the second largest Jewish dating site. A privately owned company, Avalanche, LLC. is headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida.

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