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Social networking sites becoming more popular among adults

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As reported in the Pacific Business News...A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds more people are embracing social networking, but those Web sites remain most popular among the young.

Roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults go online, and 35 percent of those use social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, according to the report. Only 8 percent of adult Web users participated in social networking sites four years ago.

Nearly two-thirds of online adolescents (ages 12 to 17) use the sites, and three-quarters of Internet users between 18 and 24 have profiles. Only 7 percent of Internet users who are 65 or older are on the sites.

The median ages of MySpace and Facebook users were 26 and 27, respectively. At the career-focused LinkedIn site, it was 40.

See link at: http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/01/12/daily48.html?ana=e_du_pub

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