---
title: "The State of Facebook"
description: "Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie led a talk during a webinar in which financial analysts and journalists discussed: \"Facebook Fatigue: Fact or Fiction?\""
date: "2013-03-14"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/03/14/the-state-of-facebook/"
categories:
  - "Facebook"
  - "Social Media"
tags:
  - "Social Networking"
---

# The State of Facebook

Pew Internet Project Director Lee Rainie presented the Project's data on Facebook, including user demographics and reasons [why Facebook users take breaks from the site](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2013/Coming-and-going-on-facebook.aspx), as part of the [“Facebook Fatigue: Fact or Fiction?” ](http://www.slideshare.net/loukerner/facebook-fatigue-rob-leathern-optimal)program presented to financial analysts and journalists.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/the-state-of-facebook-17207755