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The tone of life on social networking sites

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Lee Rainie, Amanda Lenhart, Aaron Smith

85% of the adults who use social media report that people are usually kind on the sites. At the same time, 49% have witnessed mean and offensive behavior and they usually respond by ignoring it.                                                               

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17%

the percentage of cell phone-using American adults who say they have been so distracted while talking or texting that they have physically bumped into another person or an object.

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