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May 28, 2020 · In a sense, social media began on May 24, 1844, with a series of electronic dots and dashes tapped out by hand on a telegraph machine. The first electronic message from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., proved Samuel Morse understood the historic ramifications of his scientific achievement: “What hath God wrought?” he wrote.
- Social Media Started in The Early 2000s
- In Rich Countries, Almost All Young People Use Social Media
- Some Perspective on How Fast and Profound These Rapid Changes Are
MySpace was the first social media site to reach a million monthly active users – it achieved this milestone around 2004. This is arguably the beginning of social media as we know it.1 In the chart, we plot monthly active users across various platforms since 2004. Some large social media sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit, have been aroun...
From a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we know that, if Facebook had 2.3 billion users in 2019, then at least 30% of the world was using social media.2This is just an average – usage rates were much higher for some world regions, specifically for some population groups. Young people tend to use social media more frequently. In fact, in rich count...
The percentage of US adults who use social media increased from 5% in 2005 to 79% in 2019. Even on a global stage, the speed of diffusion is striking: Facebook surged from covering around 1.5% of the world population in 2008 to around 30% in 2018.5 How does this compare to the diffusion of other communication technologies that make part of our ever...
Jan 31, 2024 · To better understand Americans’ social media use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,733 U.S. adults from May 19 to Sept. 5, 2023. Ipsos conducted this National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) for the Center using address-based sampling and a multimode protocol that included both web and mail.
- Jeffrey Gottfried
Jan 31, 2024 · To better understand Americans’ social media use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,733 U.S. adults from May 19 to Sept. 5, 2023. Ipsos conducted this National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) for the Center using address-based sampling and a multimode protocol that included both web and mail.
Jul 11, 2023 · In 2005, just 5% of Americans used a major social platform; by 2021, this number increased to 72%, according to findings from the Pew Research Center. Globally it's estimated that 4.89 billion people are using a form of social media in 2023, according to statistics from Statista.
- Madeleine Streets
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Nov 8, 2023 · This study considers how American news outlets have covered social media in the context of American politics from 2006 to 2021. By analyzing the words in political news stories focused on social media, we found that coverage has become more negative and moralized over time.
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Apr 25, 2023 · At the same time, around 2012, time on social media began to soar. In 2009, only about half of teens used social media every day, Twenge reports. In 2017, 85% used it daily.
