The files of this dataset are no longer available. A revised version has been published at: https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-235-tba9The main goal of the DFS data collection project is to map the online friendship networks of Dutch adolescents. Specifically, the Facebook networks of Dutch adolescents participating in the offline CILS4EU and CILSNL data collection are mapped. Facebook is an American social networking site (SNS) where users create an online profile, provide personal information on this profile and invite other users to become connected as friends. With these connections, users can interact via personal messaging, post directly on others’ personal profile pages and react to others’ posts. During the time of our data collection, in 2014, Facebook was the largest SNS of the world with approximately 1.3 billion members. The DFS data are collected to study the relationship between offline face-to-face contacts, and online friendship network on Facebook. To this purpose we coded variables that show respondents’ Facebook friends’ gender, numbers of friends, privacy settings and ethnicity.

According to a September 2022 survey, 18 percent of social media users in the United States felt that Facebook protected their privacy and data, down from 27 percent in 2021. Overall, Millennials trusted the social media giant the most with their data in 2022, whilst Baby boomers were the least trusting, with just one in ten belonging to this generation feeling that Meta's Facebook protected their privacy and data.

The ANES 2020-2022 Social Media Study was a two-wave survey before and after the 2020 presidential election and a third survey following the 2022 midterm elections in the United States. Data from these surveys are available as a public use file from the American National Election Studies (ANES) website. The three questionnaires have largely the same content, affording repeated measures of the same constructs. The questionnaire covers voter turnout and candidate choice in the 2020 presidential primaries and general election, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, feeling thermometers, feelings about how things are going in the country, trust in institutions, political knowledge and misinformation, political participation, political stereotyping, political diversity of social networks, and campaign/policy issues including health insurance, immigration, guns, and climate change.

The main goal of the DFS data collection project is to map the online friendship networks of Dutch adolescents. Specifically, the Facebook networks of Dutch adolescents participating in the offline CILS4EU and CILSNL data collection are mapped. Facebook is an American social networking site (SNS) where users create an online profile, provide personal information on this profile and invite other users to become connected as friends. With these connections, users can interact via personal messaging, post directly on others’ personal profile pages and react to others’ posts. During the time of our data collection, in 2014, Facebook was the largest SNS of the world with approximately 1.3 billion members. The DFS data are collected to study the relationship between offline face-to-face contacts, and online friendship network on Facebook. To this purpose we coded variables that show respondents’ Facebook friends’ gender, numbers of friends, privacy settings and ethnicity.

All data required to reproduce results of "How much research shared on Facebook is hidden from public view?". More information about the manuscript, code, and reproducibility can be found here. This dataset contains five spreadsheets from two different sources: 1. Data collected with our own method described in Enkhbayar and Alperin (2018). More details and instructions can be found in this GitHub repository. plos_one_articles.csv: All articles published in PLOS ONE from 2015 - 2017 altmetric_counts.csv: POS and TW counts retrieved from Altmetric™ graph_api_counts.csv: AES counts collected with our methods using Facebook's Graph API query_details.csv: Responses from Graph API 2. Data provided by Piwowar et al. (2017) PLOS_2015-2017_idArt-DOI-PY-Journal-Title-LargerDiscipline-Discipline-Specialty.csv: Disciplinary categorisations for PLOS ONE publications as described in Piwowar et al. (2015) References Enkhbayar, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2018). Challenges of capturing engagement on Facebook for Altmetrics. STI 2018 Conference Proceedings, 1460–1469. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01194 Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., … Haustein, S. (2018). The state of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ, 6, e4375. doi: 10/ckh5

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

Researchers in different social science disciplines have successfully used Facebook to recruit subjects for their studies. However, such convenience samples are not generally representative of the population. We develop and validate a new quota sampling method to recruit respondents using Facebook advertisements, and publish an R package to semi-automate this quota sampling process using the Facebook Marketing API. To test the method, we used Facebook advertisements to quota sample 2432 U.S. respondents for a survey on climate change public opinion. We conducted a contemporaneous nationally representative survey asking identical questions using a high-quality online survey panel whose respondents were recruited using probability sampling. Many results from the Facebook-sampled survey are similar to those from the online panel survey; furthermore, results from the Facebook-sampled survey approximate results from the American Community Survey (ACS) for a set of validation questions. These findings suggest that using Facebook to recruit respondents is a viable option for survey researchers wishing to approximate population-level public opinion.

As of April 2024, Facebook had an addressable ad audience reach 131.1 percent in Libya, followed by the United Arab Emirates with 120.5 percent and Mongolia with 116 percent. Additionally, the Philippines and Qatar had addressable ad audiences of 114.5 percent and 111.7 percent.

1) Data Introduction • The Social Media Usage Dataset(Applications) features patterns and activity indicators that 1,000 users use seven major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

2) Data Utilization (1) Social Media Usage Dataset(Applications) has characteristics that: • This dataset provides different social media activity data for each user, including daily usage time, number of posts, number of likes received, and number of new followers. (2) Social Media Usage Dataset(Applications) can be used to: • Analysis of User Participation by Platform: You can analyze participation and popular trends by platform by comparing usage time and activity for each social media. • Establish marketing strategy: Based on user activity data, it can be used for targeted marketing, content production, and user retention strategies.

According to a 2023 survey conducted in Sweden, ** percent of respondents aged over 76 years reported that Facebook was their favorite social media platform. Overall, across all age groups, women were more likely than men to claim that Facebook was their favorite social media network.

Currently, 2.7 billion people use at least one of the Facebook-owned social media platforms – Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Previous research investigating individual differences between users and non-users of these platforms has typically focused on one platform. However, individuals typically use a combination of Facebook-owned platforms. Therefore, we aim (1) to identify the relative prevalence of different patterns of social media use, and (2) to evaluate potential between-group differences in the distributions of age, gender, education, and Big Five personality traits. Data collection was performed using a cross-sectional design. Specifically, we administered a survey assessing participants’ demographic variables, current use of Facebook-owned platforms, and Big Five personality traits. In N = 3003 participants from the general population (60.67% females; mean age = 35.53 years, SD = 13.53), WhatsApp emerged as the most widely used application in the sample, and hence, has the strongest reach. A pattern consisting of a combined use of WhatsApp and Instagram appeared to be most prevalent among the youngest participants. Further, individuals using at least one social media platform were generally younger, more often female, and more extraverted than non-users. Small differences in Conscientiousness and Neuroticism also emerged across groups reporting different combinations of social media use. Interestingly, when examined as control variables, we found demographic characteristics partially accounted for differences in broad personality factors and facets across different patterns of social media use. Our findings are relevant to researchers carrying out their studies via social media platforms, as sample characteristics appear to be different depending on the platform used.

The widespread dissemination of misinformation on social media is a serious threat to global health. To a large extent, it is still unclear who actually shares health-related misinformation deliberately and accidentally. We conducted a large-scale online survey among 5,307 Facebook users in six sub-Saharan African countries, in which we collected information on sharing of fake news and truth discernment. We estimate the magnitude and determinants of deliberate and accidental sharing of misinformation related to three vaccines (HPV, polio, and COVID-19). In an OLS framework we relate the actual sharing of fake news to several socioeconomic characteristics (age, gender, employment status, education), social media consumption, personality factors and vaccine-related characteristics while controlling for country and vaccine-specific effects. We first show that actual sharing rates of fake news articles are substantially higher than those reported from developed countries and that most of the sharing occurs accidentally. Second, we reveal that the determinants of deliberate vs. accidental sharing differ. While deliberate sharing is related to being older and risk-loving, accidental sharing is associated with being older, male, and high levels of trust in institutions. Lastly, we demonstrate that the determinants of sharing differ by the adopted measure (intentions vs. actual sharing) which underscores the limitations of commonly used intention-based measures to derive insights about actual fake news sharing behaviour.

As of January 2025, 24.2 percent of Facebook users in the United States were aged between 25 and 34 years, making up Facebook’s largest audience in the country. Overall, 19 percent of users belonged to the 18 to 24-year age group. Does everyone in the U.S. use Facebook? In 2023, there were approximately 247 million Facebook users in the U.S., a figure which is projected to steadily increase, and reach 262.8 million by 2028. Social media users in the United States have a very high awareness of the social media giant. Expectedly, 94 percent of users had heard of the brand in 2023. Although the vast majority of U.S. social networkers knew of Facebook, the likeability of the platform was not so impressive at 68 percent. Nonetheless, usage, loyalty, and buzz around the brand remained relatively high. Facebook, Meta, and the metaverse A strategic rebranding from Facebook to Meta Platforms in late 2021 boded well for the company in Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to be strongly linked to the metaverse, and to be considered more than just a social media company. According to a survey conducted in the U.S. in early 2022, Meta Platforms is the brand that Americans most associated with the metaverse.  

This questionnaire could be used to explore the difference beteen Facebook and Instagram users in problematic use and well-being. Questions about the number of received “likes” and Facebook friends/Instagram followers as well as the importance of “likes” and Facebook friends/Instagram followers allow researchers to further compare the two social media platforms.

Examples of tweets and Facebook posts with quantitative evidence of social impact.

According to a global survey conducted in February 2024, almost 40 percent of Facebook users paid attention to news from mainstram news outlets and mainstream journalists on the social network. Additionally, 39 percent reported paying attention to personalities, such as celebrities and influencers. Around one in four Facebook users paid attention to politicians and politican activists on the network.

These are the raw results of a survey examining the attitudes of Hong Kong students towards the use of targeted promotion on Facebook. It was conducted by librarians at City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University from 20-26 Jan 2017. A total of 1,131 responses were received.

The United States COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey (CTIS) was a voluntary survey of Facebook users in the United States conducted from April 2020 to June 2022. CTIS was intended to aid in pandemic forecasting and response at fine spatiotemporal detail. Through collaboration with Meta, it randomly sampled Facebook active users at a rate sufficient to provide roughly 35,000 responses per day, on average. Survey questions covered topics including COVID-like symptoms, behavior (such as social distancing), COVID testing, mental health, health-related beliefs, trust in officials and information sources, schooling, vaccination acceptance and hesitancy, and related subjects. Respondents provided their ZIP code. Demographic variables include age, gender, education, race/ethnicity, and occupation. Meta generated survey weights to correct for non-response and to match the US adult population age and gender distribution. The 27 datasets make up the microdata. Users should see the Microdata User Guide for documentation on the use and interpretation of the microdata files. Two zip files are available for public download: a monthly data zip file and a weekly data zip file. These include the aggregate data. To access these files, go to the "Download" tab and select "Other." Ensure you have enough storage space before proceeding, as the files are large.

I use a Facebook survey experiment to test the impact of political polarization and depolarization on respondents’ willingness to engage in social protest in Brazil and Turkey. In Brazil, the vast majority of willing protesters are non-partisan such that the depolarization treatment increases the total pool of protesters while the polarization treatment diminishes it. In Turkey, the exact opposite is true: most potential protesters are CHP or HDP protesters opposed to the AKP government, such that polarization increases their willingness to protest and depolarization diminishes it. Aside from verifying my overall theoretical argument, the experiment is useful for understanding the magnitude of the studied effects.

Facebook is one of the most popular social networks in the United States and as of January 2025, **** percent of U.S. Facebook users were women. Facebook usage in the United StatesThanks to its wide reach and vast range of products including Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, many internet users would find it hard to imagine an online experience without the company that arguably made social media mainstream. In 2021, ** percent of the U.S. population were aware of Facebook, an all-time high and still improving on years of consistently high ranking in this area. In May 2024, Facebook had over *** million unique visitors from the United States, making it the seventh most popular multi-platform web property in the United States. Facebook usage concernsDespite near universal Facebook awareness and wide-ranking adoption, many consumers are wary of the social network’s influence on their digital experience and life. In 2018, the company was plagued by scandals, ranging from being a tool in the alleged foreign influence of the U.S. elections in 2016, to being utilized in spreading misinformation by bad actors due to lax content policies, to the mishandling of user data. During a March 2018 survey, ** percent of internet users in the United States stated that large digital platforms such as Facebook (and also Google and Twitter) should be regulated.