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Actions Prompted By Social Ads By Race, December 2012 [CHART]

While 1 in 3 social media users agree that ads on social networking sites are more annoying than other online ads, 15% have shared a social ad.

Of the major races and ethnicities in the US, Hispanics are by far the youngest on average.

Millennials (aged 18-29) in the US have diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and are concentrated in cities with large Hispanic populations.

Higher-income parents were more likely to use parental controls for their teens’ internet usage.

Just over 40% of cell phone owners said they had downloaded an app to their phone in the April 2012 survey.

44% of cell phone owners said they had used their phones to record video.

Half of cell phone owners send or receive email on their device.

More than half of cell phone owners (56%) access the internet through their phone.

Large numbers of cell owners across all demographic groups send and receive text messages, with the exception of mobile phone owners 65 and older.

Taking pictures is the most popular cell phone activity and there are only modest differences between demographic groups.