[Sociam-soton] Re: new pew internet report on facebook usage

[Kieron O'Hara]

Thanks Max - for a report on some specific goal-driven use of Facebook, 
and therefore more where I would like to focus social machines, there is 
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Social-Vote-2012.aspx, which 
looks at the use of social media to decide how to vote or persuade 
others in 2012, and 
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Election-2012-Video.aspx which 
looks at the use of political videos on youtube in the election.

Also, you might be interested in 
http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_TrackingforHealth_PDF.pdf 
of interest, which discusses people's tracking of their health 
indicators, but not focusing on technology. For instance, about 21% of 
Americans tracking their health use some form of digital technology, and 
7% use an app.

The interesting thing on the new report is that nowhere does it ask what 
Facebook is used for by all these people, just asks whether people plan 
to use it more or less.

Cheers
Kieron



On 15/02/2013 15:25, electronic Max wrote:
>
> the Pew Internet and American Life Project (www.pewinternet.org 
> <http://www.pewinternet.org>) is a non-profit organisation that 
> conducts surveys  and studies of internet use and its impact on 
> American life.
>
> it's "a nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, 
> attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world. The Pew Internet 
> Project explores the impact of the internet on children, families, 
> communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political 
> life."
>
> Anyway they just today released a new study about public perceptions 
> of facebook use, which shows a few interesting facts including
>
> 2/3rds of US adult citizens are on facebook (!)
> 61% have taken a break from using fb for at least 2 wks
> more people want to spend less time on fb in the next year, although
> 28% report that they perceive FB as less important now than a year 
> ago, as opposed to 12% that sy the opposite
> Slight gender discrepancy between women and men, with women reporting 
> wanting to spend more time and finding fb more useful, respectively
>
> Anyway here is the full report - again, just based on a survey but 
>  definitely useful for looking at public perception of one of the 
> kings of social machines --
>
> http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_Coming_and_going_on_facebook.pdf 
> <http://www.pewinternet.org/%7E/media//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_Coming_and_going_on_facebook.pdf>
>
> max
>
>
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