Study: Ages of social network users

Full list of sites in this study: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Tagged, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com, Bebo.
(Study is only carried out in USA)


This is the distribution data of ages across social network sites.



Then means my age of 19 is the 2nd least among the social network sites users.


Age distribution per site

The age distribution for each of the 19 social network sites included in this study. The list has been sorted by the average user age per site with the “youngest” site showing at the top and the “oldest” at the bottom.



Observations on age distribution:

• Bebo appeals to a much younger audience than the other sites with 44% of its users being aged 17 or less. For MySpace, this number is also large; 33%.
  
• Classmates.com has the largest share of users being aged 65 or more, 8%, and 78% are 35 or older.
  
• 64% of Twitter’s users are aged 35 or older.
  
• 61% of Facebooks’s users are aged 35 or older

Dominant age groups

Most of the social networks we included are dominated by the age group 35-44. This group has become the most “social” age group out there. This is the generation of people who were in their 20s as the Web took off in the mid ‘90s.

Looking at which age groups are the largest for each site, the distribution are:

• 0 – 17: Tops 4 out of 19 sites(21%)
  
• 18 – 24: Tops no site
  
• 25 – 34: Tops 1 out of 19 sites (5%)
  
• 35 – 44: Tops 11 out of 19 sites (58%)
  
• 45 – 54: Tops 3 out of 19 sites (16%)
  
• 55 – 64: Tops no site
  
• 65 or older: Tops no site

It’s a bit surprising that not one single site had the age group 18 – 24 as its largest, but that can be explained by this interval being a bit smaller than the other ones (it spans seven years, not 10 as most of the others). And finally, the two oldest age groups don’t top any of the sites probably doesn’t surprise anyone, though.


Average user age per site



Few observations

• The average social network user is 37 years old.
  
• LinkedIn, with its business focus, has a predictably high average user age; 44.
  
• The average Twitter user is 39 years old.
  
• The average Facebook user is 38 years old.
  
• The average MySpace user is 31 years old.
  
• Bebo has by far the youngest users, as witnessed earlier, with an average age of 28.

Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/16/study-ages-of-social-network-users/

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Thanks for sharing haha.

Actually I was quite surprised at the study. Younger people used Social networks lesser compared to older age groups. SO younger people do what with their internet and computers?

No wonder so much deceits on computers..

I think mostly watch animes and youtube. haha.

We used internet to do hw...

ombiez wrote:We used internet to do hw...

Your school uses e-learning? Thats cool, at least thats more environmental friendly.

I think she meant more on research for project work and other subjects.

wow,interesting.thx.