Social networking keeps growing
The social networking sites just keep growing. The Pew Internet & American Life Project claims that 19 percent of the people who use the Internet also use one or more social networking sites:
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service.
Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for driving the growth of this activity: social network website users, those who connect to the internet via mobile devices, and younger internet users – those under age 44.
The Pew survey also gives a demographical breakdown of social networking users. One interesting statistic is that more women (21%) than men (17%) use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others.
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