Social networks act as political rallying sites

A Pew Research Center report released late April 24 indicates that online social networks have become political hotspots in the United States. Approximately 39 percent of US adults engaged in political activity in Internet communities during the 2012 US presidential campaign, according to a Pew report titled Civic Engagement in the Digital Age. By comparison, only 26 percent of people in the United States used online social networks in any form or fashion during the prior presidential election in 2008, Pew reported.

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