Americans are social folks: 47 percent of us now say we belong to an online social network, compared to 26 percent in 2008.
This little snippet of data is joined by some other pretty interesting takes on Americans and social media, with an infographic put together by social media strategy firm Hasai, and shared by The Atlantic.
For example: What do New Jersey and North Dakota have in common? Not politics, for sure. They're the two states that have the highest numbers, in terms of friend requests on a site like Facebook (but South Dakota and Vermont are at the low end).
And, of the more than 149 million Facebook "active" users in the U.S., 70 percent log onto the site daily.
The firm points to Americans wanting "to be distracted from reality," noting "the more than 63 million active users of FarmVille (who) spend an average of 15 minutes a day pretending to run a farm.
"Over the course of a year, that's 5,475 minutes — the equivalent of a full-time job for over two weeks!"
Here's the infographic in full; see where you fall in the social media spectrum:
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