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Public Split on NSA Leak Impact, Most Say Prosecute Snowden

Pew Research Center — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:03:43 +0000

Young people are more likely than other age groups to think that the NSA leak serves the public interest and are divided over whether Snowden should be prosecuted.

Majority Backs NSA Phone Tracking

Pew Research Center — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:50:21 +0000

56% of Americans say the NSA’s monitoring of the phone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable anti-terror tactic. Americans have supported government efforts to investigate terrorist threats, even at the expense of personal privacy, since 2006.

Infographic: What Teens Share on Social Media

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:44:05 +0000

Among the things teens choose to share on social media, their real name and photos of themselves rank the highest. What else do they share?

Infographic: Sharing, Connections, and Privacy in the World of Teen Social Media

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:41:02 +0000

Explore what teens choose to share and keep private and with whom in this infographic.

Interactive: How Teens Share Information on Social Media

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:18:19 +0000

Answer the question in this interactive to begin building the interactive profile, and explore what teens share about themselves on social networking sites and what they post and prune on their profiles.

Interactive: Teens on Facebook: What They Share with Friends

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:45 +0000

The typical (median) teen Facebook user has 300 friends. The larger a teen's network, the more likely they are to have a wider variety of friends and share more personal information.

How Teens Share on Social Media

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:20:57 +0000

Teens are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends. Most teen social media users say they aren’t very concerned about third-party access to their data.

Teens on Facebook: What They Share with Friends

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:55:26 +0000

Teens on Facebook: What They Share with Friends

The typical (median) teen Facebook user has 300 friends. The larger a teen’s network, the more likely they are to have a wider variety of friends and share more personal information. In the interactive below, click through the range of network ‘friend’ sizes to see changes in what they share, and how they compare to all teen Facebook users.

How Teens Share Information on Social Media

Pew Research Center — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:55:09 +0000

Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social networking sites. While the sites themselves are designed to encourage sharing, many teens actively monitor their reputation on social media. Answer the question below to begin building the interactive profile, and explore what teens post and prune on their profiles.

5 facts about Tumblr

Pew Research Center — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:48 +0000

Yahoo! today confirmed that it’s buying 6-year-old blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. Who uses Tumblr? We consulted the recent report on social media demographics from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project to find out:

Only 6% of Internet users surveyed in late 2012 reported using Tumblr, versus two-thirds for Facebook. Three other social networking services (Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram) were clustered together, with between 13% and 16% of users saying they’d used any of them.

Tumblr is most popular among young adults: 13% of 18- to-29-year-olds said they used the service. But it still ranked last among that age group of the five social media companies we asked about.

Unlike other social media platforms, Tumblr users are equally divided between men and women. Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest all are more popular among women; men are slightly more likely than women to use Twitter.

Tumblr’s users are clustered at the low and high ends of the income scale: 8% of people with household incomes above $75,000 report using it, as well as 6% of people with incomes below $30,000.

Like most other social networking services, Tumblr tends to skew toward the urban and educated. Seven percent of urban Internet users say they use Tumblr, as does the same percentage of online users with college degrees.