65% of All Adults Use Social Media

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Article by Peter Vogel on the vogelitlawblog.

This article discusses the explosive growth of social media use, up from 5% of adults 5 years ago to 65% of adults today.

The article provides a link to the Pew Report, and also summarizes the report by providing daily use figures by adults:

92% use search engines
92% send or read email
76% get news online
71% buy a product online
65% use Social Media

The report also states, "As of May 2011, there are no significant differences in use of social networking sites based on race and ethnicity, household income, education level, or whether the internet user lives in an urban, suburban, or rural environment."

With this increased use of social network communications, it is obvious that there will be an increased amount of ESI production requests in litigation for social media information.