Martin Beck says, “It’s a social media landslide. The Pew Research Center is out with a new social media survey this week and it finds that 65 percent of American adults are social media users.

While previous Pew studies have focused on the social media penetration among US Internet users, this one tracked use among the full US population, giving a fuller picture of how large an audience Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and the like are reaching. Pew’s numbers shows social media use of 76 percent among US Internet users.

Pew compiled the results of 27 surveys and about 62,000 individual interviews over a 10-year period to show how Americans’ use of social media has grown over time. In 2005, only 7 percent of Americans were on social networks, not surprising since Facebook, the first network to reach critical mass, was founded in 2004 and was restricted to college students until 2006“.

Pew Survey: Nearly Two-Thirds Of All Americans Use Social Media

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