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Janice Lloyd, USA Today
Dec 15, 2010
Stand by, kids, Grams and Grandpop might be trying to friend you soon.
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The older set has been slow to embrace the technology, but that is changing. Now the fastest-growing group of people using social networking is adults ages 65 and olde...
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Infographic
Sep 10, 2010
Internet adoption over the past 10 years: 93% of teens ages 12-17 go online, as do 95% of young adults ages 18-29. Seventy-nine percent of all adults ages 18 and older go online.
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Ted Gregory, Chicago Tribune
Aug 28, 2010
Richard Bosack joined Facebook on Thursday, after his buddy Ray Urbans recommended the ubiquitous social networking site a few days earlier. Bosack is 89. Urbans is 96.
The two Elmhurst men might be viewed as curiosities in an arena that is consi...
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Report
Aug 27, 2010Mary Madden
Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.
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Sarah Lundy, Orlando Sentinel
Aug 27, 2010
Ruth Roseboom checks her Facebook page at least once a day. The 78-year-old Celebration grandmother has 40 Facebook friends and likes to see what they are up to on any given time.
Roseboom is part of a growing number of adults logging onto social...
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Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News
Aug 27, 2010
Just a few short years ago, Facebook was the exclusive province of postmillennial college undergraduates. Well, move over. The Woodstock generation -- and their parents -- are moving in.
The phenomenal growth of Facebook, Twitter and other social ...
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Doug Gross, CNN
Aug 27, 2010
(CNN) -- Nancy Ehrlich was nearing 50 and frustrated, teaching at her small Pennsylvania town's elementary school with colleagues who didn't share her love of technology.
Then, last summer, she found Twitter.
Now, Ehrlich -- who turns 51 in a f...
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Joshua Brockman, NPR
Aug 27, 2010
Grandma is posting a photo on Facebook.
Grandpa is looking for former colleagues on LinkedIn.
And more and more people ages 50 and older are joining social networks, according to a new ...
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Steve Evans, BBC's Americana
Jul 18, 2010
Presenter Stephen Evans crunches the numbers with Susannah Fox of The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and technology guru Megan McCarthy. They discuss what it is that Americans explore, accomplish and build when they spend hour...
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Data Set
May 1, 2010
Our May 2010 survey contains questions about wireless internet use, broadband adoption and attitudes, adult text messaging habits and the use of mobile phone applications.
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