Saturday, August 28, 2010

Social-media use nearly doubles among people 50 and over

The L.A. Times reports:
This is not your father's social network — oh, wait a minute, maybe it is.

The phenomenal growth of Facebook, Twitter and other social sites has come in part because of a surge in adoption by older members, with a national poll released Friday saying that the share of Americans over 50 using social networks nearly doubled in the last year.