Half of U.S. adults now use social-networking sites

For the first time, half of all adults in the United States said they use a social networking site, according to a survey released Friday by the Pew Research Center.

That’s 50 percent of all Americans, not just those who say they are online. Six years ago, when Pew first conducted a similar survey, only 5 percent of all adults said they used social sites, like Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace.

For more information, see this story in the New York Times:


http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/half-of-america-is-using-social-networks/?ref=technology