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Increasing Social Media Adoption or Aging Effect Among 50+ Year Olds?

The Pew Research Internet Project recently tweeted about an article about social media usage and age groups. It included the chart below that shows there is a generally upward trend (since 2006), which might be flattening, in social media usage across all age groups. Whenever I see a chart on age and something technology related, I always wonder if there is increasing adoption of the technology among the older age groups or if folks are merely aging into a higher age group.

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