Social media use over time
When Pew Research Center began tracking social media adoption in 2005, just 5% of American adults used at least one of these platforms. By 2011 that share had risen to half of all Americans, and today 72% of the public uses some type of social media.
x ofus adults who use at least one social media site  | 80  | 60  | 40  | 20  | 2010  | 2016  | 2006  | 2008  | 2012  | 2014  | 2018 