Young people in Australia are more likely to have more friends on Facebook, with the average user between the ages of 18 to 29 years having almost 400 friends on the platform. This is in contrast with senior citizens (65 years and above) who seem to be more selective, having an average of just under 70 friends on Facebook.

The most used social media platform  

Australia has very high social media penetration rate, with a majority of the population having an account on a social media platform. It is partially due to the country’s high internet penetration rate and cultural influences from the western world on social media trends. Furthermore, the number of Facebook users in Australia has been increasing steadily, with a forecast of approximately 11.5 million Australians having an account on the social media platform by the year 2022. This figure would represent more than 40 percent of the nation’s population, making it the most used social media platform in Australia. 

Demographics of Facebook users  

The use of Facebook in Australia is dominated by 25- to 34-year-old millennials, with around 4.4 million Australians in this age bracket using the social networking site in 2018. Younger generations in Australia are also more active Facebook users with those between 18 to 29 years using the platform four times more per week than those over the age of 65 years. Elderly users of social media however were most likely to have a Facebook account in comparison to other generations.   

According to a survey conducted among adults in the United States in May 2021, 12 percent of respondents said they had no close friends. This marked an increase compared to a three percent share of U.S. adults stating the same thing during a survey conducted in 1990. Conversely, the percentage of Americans who said they had 10 or more close friends decreased from 33 percent in 1990 to 13 percent in 2021. The decrease of larger friend groups went hand in hand with a rise of adults stating they had between one to four close friends.

A stateside social recession? Americans marrying later, working longer hours, and becoming more geographically mobile are some elements posited as potential reasons for the nation's increasing loneliness - all this without mentioning the far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This pre-registered meta-analysis uses multi-level random effects models to give precise estimates of average outbound best friend and friend nominations -- average outdegree centrality -- in youth friendship networks and examines whether average outdegree centrality varies by age, gender, and geographic region. Pooling 196 estimates reported in 51 articles reflecting 37 datasets from whole network studies, youth nominated 4.80 best friends on average (SE = .37). Additionally, pooling 64 estimates reported in 20 articles reflecting 18 datasets from whole network studies, youth nominated 6.05 friends on average (SE = .60). Early adolescents (10 -- 14 years) nominated significantly more best friends than adolescents (15 -- 18 years). However, there were no significant differences in average outdegree centrality by the gender or geographic region of the sample. Findings provide future research directions for understanding youth socializing environments and implications for peer interventions.

The chart shows that Americans over 65 were more likely to share fake news to their Facebook friends, regardless of their education, ideology, and partisanship. The oldest age group was likely to share nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains on Facebook as those in the youngest age group, or about 2.3 times as many as those in the next-oldest age group. The data regarding the age group 18-29 and 30-44 are not displayed in the source, therefore the value of data in this chart are approximate, determined with pixel count.

This table contains 174 series, with data for years 1994 - 1998 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-29. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (29 items: Austria; Belgium (French speaking); Canada; Belgium (Flemish speaking) ...) Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...) Age groups (3 items: 11 years; 15 years; 13 years ...).

This statistic shows the average number of Snapchat contacts in Australia as of April 2018, by age group. During the survey, respondents aged between 30 and 39 said they had on average 112 contacts on Snapchat.

The statistic shows the share of adults who have ever watched the TV sitcom 'Friends' in the United States as of February 2018, broken down by age group. During the survey, 19 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 stated that they had watched every episode of the hit TV show.

In Italy, young people in Italy met their friends considerably more often than adults and elderly people. For instance, people aged 15 to 17 years said that they had met their friends several times during a typical week. People aged 45 to 54 years, on the contrary, met their friends several times a month, while 18.7 percent of elderly people met their friends a few times a year.

As of January 2025, users aged 25 to 34 years made up Facebook's largest audience in the United States, accounting for 24.2 percent of the social network's user base, with 12.3 percent of those users being women. Overall, 9.7 percent of users aged 35 to 44 years were women, and 9.3 percent were men. How many people use Facebook in the United States? Facebook is by far the most used social network in the world and finds a huge share of its audience in the United States. Facebook’s U.S. audience size comes second only to India. In 2023, there were over 246 million Facebook users in the U.S. By 2028, it is estimated that around 263 million people in the U.S. will be signed up for the platform. How do users in the United States view the platform? Although Facebook is widely used and very popular with U.S. consumers, there are issues of trust with its North American audience. As of November 2021, 72 percent of respondents reported that they did not trust Facebook with their personal data. Despite having privacy doubts, a May 2022 survey found that 20 percent of adults had a very favorable opinion of Facebook, and one-third held a somewhat positive view of the platform.

This dataset is about book subjects and is filtered where the books is The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age, featuring 10 columns including authors, average publication date, book publishers, book subject, and books. The preview is ordered by number of books (descending).

This table contains 1680 series, with data for years 2002 - 2002 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: Austria; Canada; Belgium (French speaking); Belgium (Flemish speaking) ...) Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...) Age group (3 items: 11 years; 15 years; 13 years ...) Sex of friend (2 items: Male friends; Female friends ...) Student response (4 items: None; 1 friend; 2 friends; 3 friends or more ...).

This dataset is about book subjects and is filtered where the books includes Friends of the people : uneasy radicals in the age of the Chartists, featuring 10 columns including authors, average publication date, book publishers, book subject, and books. The preview is ordered by number of books (descending).

This table contains 1260 series, with data for years 2002 - 2002 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: Austria; Belgium (French speaking); Canada; Belgium (Flemish speaking) ...) Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...) Age group (3 items: 11 years; 13 years; 15 years ...) Student response (6 items: 0 days; 3 days; 2 days; 1 day ...).

ObjectivesTo test the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of a mHealth intervention tailored for Chinese immigrant families with type 2 diabetes (T2D).MethodsWe conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) with baseline, 3-, and 6-month measurements. Participating dyads, T2D patients and families/friends from NYC, were randomized into the intervention group (n = 11) or the wait-list control group (n = 12). Intervention includes 24 videos covering T2D self-management, behavioral techniques, and family-oriented sessions. Feasibility and acceptability were measured respectively by the retention rate and video watch rate, and a satisfaction survey. Patients’ HbA1c, weight, and self-management were also assessed to test potential efficacy.ResultsMost T2D patients (n = 23; mean age 56.2±9.4 years; 52.2% male) and families/friends (n = 23, mean age 54.6±11.2 years; 52.2% female) had high school education or less (69.6% and 69.6%), annual household income < $25,000 (65.2% and 52.2%), and limited English proficiency (95.7% and 95.7%). The retention rates were not significantly different between the intervention and the control groups for both the patients (90.91% vs 83.3%, p = 0.589); and their families/friends (3-month: 90.9% vs 75%, p = 0.313; 6-month: 90.9% vs 83.3%, p = 0.589). The mean video watch rate was 76.8% (7%). T2D patients and families/friends rated satisfaction as 9.4 and 10 out of 10, respectively. Despite no between-group differences, the intervention group had significantly lower HbA1c (p = 0.014) and better self-management (p = 0.009), and lost 12 lbs. on average at 6 months (p = 0.079), compared to their baseline levels.ConclusionsA culturally-tailored, family-based mHealth intervention is feasible and acceptable among low-income, limited English-proficient Chinese families with T2D in NYC. Significant changes in HbA1c and self-management within the intervention group indicate this intervention may have potential efficacy. Given the small sample size of this study, a future RCT with adequate power is needed to test efficacy.

The survey charted the well-being and social relationships of sixth-graders and their parents/guardians living in the Turku region. Themes of the survey included, among others, leisure time activities and hobbies, friendships, home and family, and views on life and other people. The survey for sixth-graders contained questions on, for example, how they spent their leisure time, how many hobbies they had, and how satisfied they were with their life. Questions also examined how many friends the sixth-graders had, how often they met with their friends, whether they ever felt lonely, and how happy they thought they were. The sixth-graders' home environment and family were surveyed with questions about household composition, languages spoken at home, worries about money, and major life changes (e.g. moving, parents' divorce). Views on life and other people were charted by asking the respondents whether they agreed or disagreed with various statements on giving and receiving help, how much they trusted other people, and whether they had a positive or negative attitude towards different groups of people. Questions also focused on moral issues (e.g. whether the respondents thought lying to one's friends was acceptable for one's own gain) as well as opinions on immigration and sexual minorities. The sixth-graders could complete the questionnaire on paper or online. The respondents completed the questionnaire during class and were supervised by their teacher or the researcher. The teachers were given separate instructions if they supervised the class. In the survey for the parents/guardians of the sixth-graders, questions first examined family composition and living arrangements of the sixth-grader. The respondents were also asked how they spent their leisure time, how satisfied they were with their life, and how often they met their friends, relatives or colleagues outside of work. Views on and trust in other people were surveyed, and the respondents were asked about giving and receiving help. Finally, various attitudinal statements were presented. The parents/guardians responded to the questionnaire online. The variables in the data were named so that the questions aimed at parents/guardians begin with 'p_'. Background variables included, among others, the sixth-grader's age and gender, and the parent's/guardian's year of birth, gender, level of education, economic activity and occupational status, languages spoken at home (categorised), household income, number of parents/guardians and children in the household (categorised), and number of pupils in the school.

How much time do people spend on social media? As of 2024, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to 143 minutes per day, down from 151 minutes in the previous year. Currently, the country with the most time spent on social media per day is Brazil, with online users spending an average of three hours and 49 minutes on social media each day. In comparison, the daily time spent with social media in the U.S. was just two hours and 16 minutes. Global social media usageCurrently, the global social network penetration rate is 62.3 percent. Northern Europe had an 81.7 percent social media penetration rate, topping the ranking of global social media usage by region. Eastern and Middle Africa closed the ranking with 10.1 and 9.6 percent usage reach, respectively. People access social media for a variety of reasons. Users like to find funny or entertaining content and enjoy sharing photos and videos with friends, but mainly use social media to stay in touch with current events friends. Global impact of social mediaSocial media has a wide-reaching and significant impact on not only online activities but also offline behavior and life in general. During a global online user survey in February 2019, a significant share of respondents stated that social media had increased their access to information, ease of communication, and freedom of expression. On the flip side, respondents also felt that social media had worsened their personal privacy, increased a polarization in politics and heightened everyday distractions.

This table contains 80 series, with data for years 2002 - 2002 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...) Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...) Age group (1 items: 15 years ...) Statements (8 items: My friends smoke cigarettes; My friends like school; My friends think getting good marks at school is important; My friends get along with their parents ...) Student response (5 items: None; A few; Some; Most ...).

This table contains 1632 series, with data for years 2002 - 2002 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (34 items: Austria; Belgium (French speaking); Canada; Belgium (Flemish speaking) ...) Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...) Age Group (3 items: 11 years; 15 years; 13 years ...) Student response (8 items: 0 evenings; 3 evenings; 1 evening; 2 evenings ...).

This table contains 36 series, with data for years 2002 - 2002 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...) Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...) Age group (3 items: 11 years; 15 years; 13 years ...) Student response (6 items: All or almost all; More than half; Half; Less than half ...).

In Italy, elderly people aged 75 years and older represent the majority of Italians who state not to have friends. Some 3.8 percent of them had no friends as of 2019. On the contrary, the percentage of young people without friends were the lowest.