According to the study, the most used type of sites and applications on the internet are chat and messaging services, for 95.7% of users, social networks follow closely with 95.2%.

Rabia Khalaila, Adi Vitman-Schorr, Internet use, social networks, loneliness, and quality of life among adults aged 50 and older: mediating and moderating effects, Quality of Life Research, Vol. 27, ...

When the Social Ties Survey showed that people use the internet to activate their social networks when they need help, we followed up in a survey in March 2005 that we call the Major Moments survey.

Online social networks are spaces on the internet where users can create a profile and connect that profile to others to create a personal network. Social network users post content to their profiles ...

Outlook Published: 02 March 2016 Social networks: Better together Chelsea Wald Nature 531, S14–S15 (2016) Cite this article ...

The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made us all more connected, but long-distance social networks existed long before the Internet. A new study led by an ...

Young people surf Internet on their phones in Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City, 2019. Photo by Shutterstock/Anh Huy. Vietnamese are more active on the Internet and social networks than citizens of ...

AFP, one of the world’s three biggest news agencies, with 1,500 journalists working in 150 countries and six languages, is providing a guide for its journalists participating on social networks ...

The following social networks are designed for close-knit groups who really want to connect with each other—not social butterflies who want to broadcast their lives across the Internet.