Twitter and status updating
As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
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As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more soci…
Many Americans are jumping into the participatory Web without considering all the implications. If nothing really bad has happened to someone, they tend neither to worry about their personal information nor to take steps to limit the amount of infor…
The impacts of high-speed connections extend beyond access to information to active participation in the online commons
83% of online Americans say they have used the internet to seek information about their hobbies and 29% do so on a typical day.
Just half of adults with chronic conditions use the internet; but once online, they are avid consumers of health information.
More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.
One in 12 adult American internet users participates in sports fantasy leagues online.
33 million American internet users have reviewed or rated someone or something as part of an online rating system.
The percentage of American adult Internet users who say they download music drops by half and the usage of some file-sharing applications declines.
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