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February 4, 2014 08:00 pm GMT

Pew: Facebook Aged 10 Is Seeing Adult Usage Intensifying; 57% Of Adults Are Users, 64% Visit Daily

facebook-appFacebook has turned 10 which is a very ancient age indeed for any digital service considering the blistering pace of technological change. To mark Zuck’s baby’s tenth Birthday, the Pew Research Center report has put out some new research looking at how people in the U.S. are using the service, and the things they really like and don’t like about it. For the past five+ years of Facebook’s lifespan scores of apps have bubbled in and out of existence every week, with only a fraction going the distance to scale up and build a sustainable business. Yet fb has hung in there, even as digital social habits have shifted and the Internet as a whole has become a very different place to when Zuck & co started out. Pew’s research underlines this core point: The Facebook has managed to retain category dominance despite growing into the grand old daddy of the digital social space.The research found that Facebook is used by 57% of all adults, and 73% of all those ages 12-17. Add to that, Pew found that adult Facebook usage is “intensifying”, with 64% of Facebook users visiting the site on a daily basis, up from 51% of users in 2010.So far from (U.S.) users getting bored with Facebook, the service is apparently managing to get stickier still in its oldest stamping ground, the older it gets. Previous Pew researchnoted some change in usage of Facebook by teens, although the organisation alsoemphasized that teens weren’t abandoning the service entirely — at least, not at that point. (Although Facebook subsequently admittedsome drop in usage among teens, last October.)In its latest research Pew says only that usage among teens remains “high”.It did not gather data on the intensity of teens’ usage of Facebook for this piece of research, so teen fb engagement remains a measure to keep an eye on as the service heads for its own troubled teens. The research did look at the relative size of users’ friendship networks on Facebook. Half of all adult Facebook users have more than 200 friends in their network, according to the data, although a sizeable chunk (39%) have far fewer: between just 1 and 100 friends. The average (mean) number of friends among adult Facebook users is 338, and the median (midpoint) is 200.An outlying 15% have more than 500 friends. Also noteworthy: younger Facebook users tend to have significantly larger friend

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