By SOMINI SENGUPTA, New York Times
Social networks have crossed another milestone. For the first time, half of all adults in the United States said they used a social networking site, according to a survey released on Friday by the Pew Research Center. That is 50 percent of all Americans, not just those who say they are online. Six years ago, when Pew first conducted a similar survey, only 5 percent of all adults said they used social sites, like Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace. It is a sign of how deeply and widely social networking companies have penetrated the lives of ordinary people and, in turn, transformed the ways in which people communicate, authorities govern and companies sell things.
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