Platforms & Services

More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.

The impact of the internet is evident in many ways in China

Some critics have assailed Time magazine’s choice for 2006 Person of the Year in recent days, calling the editors’ selection of “You” with a mirror on the cover gimmicky. But this wasn’t the first unconventional choice for Time’s honor – or the first time a group of people was selected. PEJ takes stock of Time’s past Persons of the Year from 1927 on.

Nearly two in five adult internet users in the U.S. (39%) have gone online to look for information about a place to live, up from 34% in 2004 and 27% in 2000.

More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours -- nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.

More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours -- nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.

As we've seen during this election season, participating online can also motivate users to participate offline.

One in five adults in this country are disconnected from the just-in-time information source that the internet has become for many people.

More than a third or 35% of online adults create content online, and 57% of teenagers 12-17 make their own content to post to the Web. Younger users and home broadband users are the most avid content creators, and most post their creations online ...

Political pollsters continue to cast a wary eye on the growing number of Americans who use only a cell phone and have no landline. The Pew Research Center estimates that this group now constitutes one-in-ten adults. But three Pew surveys of cell-only Americans this year have found that their absence from landline surveys is not creating a measurable bias in the bottom-line findings.