Forty-three percent of older Americans — those ages 65 and over — now use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, the Pew Research Center has found.

This percentage has tripled in just the past four years, when just 13 percent of older Americans used social networking sites. It is also a huge improvement from the summer of 2006, when just 1 percent of older Americans used such sites.

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