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teen and adult use of socia networking sites and twitter - change over time

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 active on social
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 sites and
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 between 2006 and 2012.
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, it is obvious that teens have a consistently higher adoption rate of social networking sites and
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 than
adults
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 over the entire six-year period. The gap between social
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 use of youngsters and
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 was quite significant between 2006 and 2010
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 but became far less pronounced from 2011 on.
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 analysis of the data reveals that 55% of minors utilized social networking sites in 2006.
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 percentage steadily increased by between 5 to 8% each year, reaching 80% in 2011 and levelling off to 81% in 2012. At the introduction of
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 in 2009, the teen adoption rate of
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 platform stood at 8%.
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 number quickly incremented to 24% in 2012. As far as the adult population is concerned, it can be noted that only 16% of
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 was active on social
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 in 2006.
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 figure gradually increased in the first two years and
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 experienced a steep growth until reaching its peak of 67% in 2012. The proportion of
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 using
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 only saw a modest increase of 4% between 2011 and 2012.
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