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    Home Internet Penetration

    The rapid adoption of broadband connections (the blue lines in this chart) is one of the revolutionary changes that occurred in media and communication in the last decade. In the inaugural survey of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in 2000, a tiny fraction of Americans had high-speed, always-on broadband connections in […]

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    Use Facebook Daily

    A majority of adults who use Facebook interact with the website at least daily.

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    Zuckerberg vs. Boehner (updated)

    Far more young adults are able to identify the founder of Facebook (63%) than name the speaker of the House (21%).

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    Global Social Networking

    Along with the U.S., three other nations surveyed have at least four-in-ten adults on social networks: Poland, Britain and South Korea.

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    Meet the Candidate (Online)

    Among internet users, 7% of adults friended a candidate or political group on a social networking site or followed them on Twitter.

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    Twitter Users

    Among adults who go online, 8% use Twitter.

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    GOP Catches up with Dems Online

    Among adult internet users who engaged with a political campaign on Twitter or a social networking site, more supported Republican congressional candidates than Democratic candidates.

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    Wikipedia Users

    More than half of online adults use Wikipedia — which celebrates its 10th anniversary this Saturday — to look for information.

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    Email vs. Social Networks

    Young adults are just as likely to check their email as their Facebook account on a typical day; older adults still favor email.

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    Friending Grandma

    More than four-in-ten internet users ages 50 and older now use social networking sites.

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