Social Media

reportOct 14, 2026

Nearly four-in-ten U.S. adults are in an online community. These virtual third spaces can take many forms, like Facebook groups, online video games or fandom forums on Reddit.

reportOct 7, 2026

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Just over half of health and wellness content on social media focuses on healthy living, while about a third discusses medical topics. And 38% of posts have a product or service promotion.

reportOct 1, 2026

Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics.

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reportFeb 4, 2009

Five Years of Free Friendship Online

The social networking juggernaut Facebook turns five years old today, and the chatter online about the birthday ranges from congratulatory to cautionary.
reportJan 30, 2009

New social media research

Our colleagues at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism have developed a New Media Index and are unveiling it today.
reportJan 21, 2009

The Annotated Inauguration

Yesterday’s inauguration was the first to be fully digitized, annotated and archived online.
presentationJan 14, 2009

How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem

This speech pulls together Pew Internet Project data about how people’s use of the internet and cell phones has fundamentally changed the “information ecosystem” in 10 ways.
reportJan 14, 2009

Adults and Social Network Websites

The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years — from 8% in 2005 to 35% at the end of 2008.
short readsJan 6, 2009

Fans of Facebook

About a third of the U.S. public calls social networking sites such as Facebook a change for the better.
reportDec 24, 2008

The New Connectedness

Our “Networked Families” report contains data about the “new connectedness” or what Twitterers call “ambient intimacy.”
reportDec 17, 2008

The Internet as Social Ally

Do people consider the internet itself a kind of social ally? Not directly, but they often treat the internet as they would a helpful friend.
reportDec 14, 2008

The Future of the Internet III

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…
reportDec 4, 2008

Obama’s Online Opportunities

There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have…

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