Pew Research Center Report: Social Networking Sites and Our Lives

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Fellow bike advocates, cycling organizations and geeks who want to gain a richer understanding of the internet and social media will find this useful. 

Pew Internet & American Life Project released a comprehensive report today on social networking sites and their impact on our lives.

Social Networking Sites and Our Lives

How people's trust, personal relationships, and civic and political involvement are connected to their use of social networking sites and other technologies.

 From pewinternet.org:

Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people’s overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement.

The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people’s varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class.

 Here's the full report.

Social networking sites and our lives




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