Online Social Networking - UK - April 2008
Online Social Networking - UK - April 2008

If anything justifies the use of the word ‘phenomenon’ it is the growth of online social networking seen in the UK over the past year to 18 months. Metrics data report triple-digit annual growth in traffic and ‘Facebook’ made it into the 2008 Collins English Dictionary as both a noun and a verb. As it says on the PG Tips monkey’s T-shirt: “I Facebooked your mum.”

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Appendix – Who Uses Social Networking Websites?
Appendix – Who Uses Which Network?
Appendix – With Which Online Social Networks are Members Most Engaged?
Appendix – How Do We Use Social Networks?
Appendix – What Do We Do Outside Our Social Networks?
Appendix – More Time Social Networking, Less Time Doing What?
Appendix – What Do We Think About Online Social Networks?

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Who Uses Social Networking Websites?
Who Uses Which Network?
Where do we Network?
With Which Online Social Networks are Members Most Engaged?
How Do We Use Social Networks?
What Do We Do Outside Our Social Networks?
More Time Social Networking, Less Time Doing What?
What Do We Think About Online Social Networks?
Social Networking and the Young
Social Networking Attitudinal Groups