10% of social network users engage in political activity of some kind
33% of internet users has a profile on a social networking site such as Facebook or MySpace, and 40% of these (representing 10% of all adults) have used these sites to engage in political activity of some kind, according to Pew Internet Project.
| Discovered your friends’ political interests or affiliations | 29% |
| Gotten any campaign or candidate information | 22 |
| Signed up as a friend of any candidates | 10 |
| Started or joined a political group | 9 |
Published on: July 31, 2008 Department: Internet usage, WWW