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?
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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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