Social Networking Site Use by Gender, 2005- 2012 Percent of adult internet users
Are you planning to wish your mom a Happy Mother’s Day on Facebook? If so, you’re not alone. “Moms” (defined as women with a child or children under the age of 18 living at home) are especially likely to be Facebook users, even compared with dads, or with other women, according to Pew Research Center’s 2012 data on social networking. Some 79% of moms use Facebook, compared with 61% of all women and 57% of men with a minor child living at home. (As of December 2012, 54% of all American adults and 67% of internet users use social networking sites.)
Perhaps it’s not surprising so many moms are on Facebook. Women surpassed men in their social networking site usage several years ago and since then they have been consistently more likely than men to use online social networks.
Social Networking Site Use  | by Gender, 2005- 2012  | Percent of adult internet users  | 71%  | Female  | 62%  | Male  | 56  | 30  | 28  | 2005  | 2008  | 2010  | 2012  | Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life  | Project surveys February 2005 August 2006, May 2008  | April 2009, May 2010, May 2011 and December 2012  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 