No “perhaps” necessary—Facebook employees have even published academic papers based on this.
> Social media also affords users the ability to type out and review their thoughts prior to sharing them. This feature adds an additional phase of filtering that is not available in face-to-face communication: filtering after a thought has been formed and expressed, but before it has been shared. … Last-minute self-censorship is of particular interest to [social networking sites]…
> In this paper, we shed some light on which Facebook users
self-censor under what conditions, by reporting results from a large-scale exploratory analysis: the behavior of 3.9 million Facebook users.
> Social media also affords users the ability to type out and review their thoughts prior to sharing them. This feature adds an additional phase of filtering that is not available in face-to-face communication: filtering after a thought has been formed and expressed, but before it has been shared. … Last-minute self-censorship is of particular interest to [social networking sites]…
> In this paper, we shed some light on which Facebook users self-censor under what conditions, by reporting results from a large-scale exploratory analysis: the behavior of 3.9 million Facebook users.
https://sauvikdas.com/uploads/paper/pdf/4/self-censorship_on...