Internet Increases Interaction with Interest Groups

POSTED BY: Jim Ittenbach | January 27, 2011

The Internet is now deeply embedded in group and organizational life in America.

A new national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that 75% of all American adults are active in some kind of voluntary group or organization, and Internet users are more likely than others to be active: 80% of Internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-Internet users.

And social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter users are group participants.

Read the full report here.