Washington - Contrary to common opinion, the actual users of social networking also owns real life. Based on a poll published Thursday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, and was quoted by Reuters, Facebook users is more reliable to have more close friends and more involved politically.
Real life is also owned by loyal Facebookers
The survey involved 2255 adult Americans. Survey results found that Facebook members who frequently use the site per day or more than three times, had a tendency to feel that most people can be trusted, than those who are not Internet users.
People who use Facebook several times per day, an average of nine percent is closer and more tied into the overall social networks than other Internet users.
Facebook users of two and a half times more likely to attend demonstrations or political meetings than other Internet users and users of other social networks.
"There is a great deal of speculation about the impact of social networking sites used in the social life of people," said Keith Hampton, compilers of the Pew Internet report.
"Most of it focused on the possibility that the sites were damaging the relationship of users and forcing them further involved in the world," said Hampton, consistent professor at the Faculty of Communication (Annenberg School for Communication), University of Pennsylvania.
"We found the opposite that the people who use sites like Facebook actually has a closer relationship and more likely to engage in civic and political activities," he said.
Forty-two percent of American adults use social networking sites to 26 percent in 2008, and the average age of adult users has changed from 33 in 2008 to 38 in 2010.
Facebook, which has nearly 700 million users worldwide and nearly 160 million in the United States, is a popular social networking ever surveyed and only one of the most binding.
Ninety-two percent of participants is on Facebook, 29 percent on Myspace, LinkedIn and 18 percent at 13 percent using Twitter.
Fifty-two percent of Facebook users and 33 percent of Twitter users involved in the site every day compared to only seven percent of MySpace users and only six percent of LinkedIn users.
The average Facebook user in the sample have 229 Facebook friends with 22 percent of high school friends, 12 percent of large families, 10 percent co-workers, nine percent of college friends, close relatives of eight percent, seven percent of voluntary groups and two percent of the neighbors.
Thirty-one percent of Facebook friends can not be classified. Only three percent of Facebook friends a user who has never met in person.
The average Facebook user adults aged 38 years, average 32-year-old MySpace user, the average LinkedIn user aged 40 years and the average Twitter user aged 33 years.
In terms of activity on Facebook, the average count per day, 15 percent of Facebook users update their own status, 22 percent to comment on "posts" or status of others, 20 percent to comment on other users photos, 26 percent liked the content of other users and 10 percent send a private message to a friend.
Most people update their status less than once per week and 16 percent never update their status. The survey was conducted between October 20 and 28 November and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.
