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title: "Family Web Bonding"
description: "A quarter of online adults (23%) have used the web to search for information about their family."
date: "2008-11-23"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/11/23/family-web-bonding/"
---

# Family Web Bonding

Slightly fewer than a quarter of online adults (23%) have searched for a family member with an internet search engine. While adults ages 18-29 were more likely than those 30-49 to search online for information about friends, the opposite is true for seaches about family, with those 30-49 (26%) more likely to use a search engine to gather information about family members than those 18-29 (24%). [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/663/digital-footprints)