February 2012
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Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their... →
Analysts generally believe many young people growing up in today’s networked world and counting on the internet as their external brain will be nimble analysts and decision-makers who will do well. But these experts also expect that constantly connected teens and young adults will thirst for instant gratification and often make quick, shallow choices. Where will that leave us in 2020?
We’ve...
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Did you know: Male profile owners are almost twice... →
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“The most important source of information for people making a day-to-day health...”
– Pew Internet & American Life Project Associate Director of Digital Strategy Susannah Fox presented the project’s data on communities of color and young people, particularly as it relates to health, twice this week — On Wednesday as a guest of the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council and on...
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Fast facts: The tone of life on social networking...
85% of adult social networking site users say that their experience on the sites is that people are mostly kind, compared with 5% who say people they observe on the sites are mostly unkind and another 5% who say their answer depends on the situation.
68% of SNS users said they had an experience that made them feel good about themselves.
61% had experiences that made them feel closer to another...
digiture asked: Very excited that I found this Tumblr blog. I use PEW Research for work and find it very valuable. I hope this space is run the way Mel runs NPRFreshAir: small, significant pieces (like a simple chart with a line or two with commentary and a link-back to the full report) plus some general internet sass to show that there is in fact a human running this blog.
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Your friends on Facebook have more friends than... →
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WatchVideo for your Friday afternoon: Meet the Facebook POWER USERS.
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Most Facebook users get more than they give. Why?... →
We combined server logs of Facebook activity with survey data to explore the structure of Facebook friendship networks and measures of social well-being. These data were then matched with survey responses. We found that over a one-month period:
40% of Facebook users in our sample made a friend request, but 63% received at least one request
Users in our sample pressed the like button next to...
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FACEBOOK: Who uses it and what are they doing?
On an average day:
15% of Facebook users update their own status.
22% comment on another’s post or status.
20% comment on another user’s photos.
26% “Like” another user’s content.
10% send another user a private message
A snapshot of sex/age distribution by social networking site platform:
43% of Facebook users are male and 58% are female.
33% of Facebook users are 23-35
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January 2012
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Teens migrating to Twitter — sometimes for privacy →
16% of 12-17 year-olds said they used Twitter in our survey last July. Two years earlier, that percentage was just 8 (see http://pewrsr.ch/vWuMHJ).
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The rise of in-store mobile commerce
Did you phone a friend before making a purchase in a store this holiday season?
38% of cell owners did.
We’ve got new stats that indicate more than 50% of adult cell phone owners used their cells while they were in a store during the 2011 holiday season to seek help with purchasing decisions, for at least one of these reasons:
Other detailed findings:
Cell owners ages 18-49 are...
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Tablet and e-book reader ownership surge in the...
In case you missed our latest report: The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time period.
The number of Americans owning either a tablet or e-reader jumped from 18% in December to 29% in...
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WatchWhat will the internet be like in 5 or 10 years?
The Discovery Channel’s Curiosity TV asks and answers questions facing the world today — and our director, Lee Rainie, sat down to answer a bunch of them. Here’s a good one on the future of the internet.
You can view all of his “answers” here.
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Would you share your password with someone to show... →
It used to be pins, then letterman jackets, and jewelry; now, according to The New York Times, it’s passwords.
Our recent report on Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites found that one in three online teens has shared a password with a friend or significant other. You can read the full report here.
Internet 2011 in numbers - Social Media →
courtenaybird:
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
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“There’s power in urgency, whether you’re spending money on a Slap...”
– Bonus points to Atlantic writer Megan Garber for including a SlapChop video in her story on our new mobile giving report (pewinternet.org/mobilegiving).
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Mormons In America: An Infographic →
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Why mobile phone users texted $ millions in aid to...
On January 12, 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the nation of Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince. Up to three million people were killed, injured or displaced.
In the months following the earthquake, Americans contributed more than $43 million in aid via cell phone text message donations. Our new report explores why these text donors contributed, and how they got their friends to...
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