Research: who uses Facebook?

Fully 71% of online American adults use Facebook, a proportion unchanged from August 2013. Usage among seniors continues to increase. Some 56% of internet users ages 65 and older now use Facebook, up from 45% who did so in late 2013 and 35% who did so in late 2012. Women are also particularly likely to use Facebook compared with men, a trend that continues from prior years.

Facebook users also have a wide variety of friends on the network:

• 93% of Facebook users say they are Facebook friends with family members other than parents or children
• 91% say they are Facebook friends with current friends
• 87% say they are connected to friends from the past, such as high school or college classmates
• 58% say they are connected to work colleagues
• 45% say they are Facebook friends with their parents
• 43% say they are friends with their children on Facebook
• 39% say they are connected to people they have never met in person
• 36% say they are Facebook friends with their neighbors

This information is provided by Pew Research - Jan 2014. For quality SEO and web design click here.