24% Americans uses an online social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, according to the Pew Internet Project. 66% of Americans age 18-29 say they use social networking sites, and 27% say that they have gotten information about candidates and the campaign from them – including 37% among those ages 18-24. 8% of people under age 30 say that they have signed up as a “friend” of one of the candidates on a site. 21% of people ages 30-39 use social networking sites, but just 4% in this age group say that they have gotten campaign information from those sites; 3% have “friended” a candidate.
| Action | Total | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40+ |
| Use social network sites | 22 | 67 | 21 | 6 |
| Get campaign information from sites | 7 | 27 | 4 | 1 |
| Signed up as “friend” of candidate | 3 | 8 | 3 | * |