People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries

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Moretto, Marcio; Ortellado, Pablo; Kessler, Gabriel; Vommaro, Gabriel Alejandro; Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos; Luna, Juan Pablo; Heinen, Eduarth; Cely, Laura Fernanda; Toro, Sergio
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2022
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A growing body of literature has noted an age pattern in the sharing of false news insocial media, with older people sharing more often misinformation than younger users.In this article we supplement this literature by documenting two distinct butcomplementary phenomena: Facebook users share more content as they get olderregardless of whether it is political; and that this increment in sharing activity as ageincreases is more intense with political and partisan URLs. Based on the FacebookPrivacy-Protected Full URLs Data Set, a vast Facebook database with demographicinformation of those who saw and shared links on Facebook in 46 countries, weinvestigate the impact of age on link-sharing activity. We found that in 43 countries, theaverage age of people who shared links was considerably higher than the age of thosewho saw the links. In a more detailed study, with Facebook users in South America, wefind that the average age increases consecutively in the sharing of non-political content,in the sharing of political content, in the sharing of partisan sites and in the sharing ofright-leaning partisan sites.
Fil: Moretto, Marcio. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Fil: Ortellado, Pablo. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Fil: Kessler, Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina
Fil: Vommaro, Gabriel Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina
Fil: Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos. Universidad de Los Andes; Venezuela
Fil: Luna, Juan Pablo. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile
Fil: Heinen, Eduarth. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Fil: Cely, Laura Fernanda. Universidad de Los Andes; Venezuela
Fil: Toro, Sergio. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
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Older adults
Social media
Facebook
Latin America
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
title People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
spellingShingle People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
Moretto, Marcio
Older adults
Social media
Facebook
Latin America
title_short People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
title_full People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
title_fullStr People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
title_full_unstemmed People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
title_sort People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: Evidence from users in 46 countries
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Moretto, Marcio
Ortellado, Pablo
Kessler, Gabriel
Vommaro, Gabriel Alejandro
Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos
Luna, Juan Pablo
Heinen, Eduarth
Cely, Laura Fernanda
Toro, Sergio
author Moretto, Marcio
author_facet Moretto, Marcio
Ortellado, Pablo
Kessler, Gabriel
Vommaro, Gabriel Alejandro
Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos
Luna, Juan Pablo
Heinen, Eduarth
Cely, Laura Fernanda
Toro, Sergio
author_role author
author2 Ortellado, Pablo
Kessler, Gabriel
Vommaro, Gabriel Alejandro
Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos
Luna, Juan Pablo
Heinen, Eduarth
Cely, Laura Fernanda
Toro, Sergio
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Older adults
Social media
Facebook
Latin America
topic Older adults
Social media
Facebook
Latin America
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv A growing body of literature has noted an age pattern in the sharing of false news insocial media, with older people sharing more often misinformation than younger users.In this article we supplement this literature by documenting two distinct butcomplementary phenomena: Facebook users share more content as they get olderregardless of whether it is political; and that this increment in sharing activity as ageincreases is more intense with political and partisan URLs. Based on the FacebookPrivacy-Protected Full URLs Data Set, a vast Facebook database with demographicinformation of those who saw and shared links on Facebook in 46 countries, weinvestigate the impact of age on link-sharing activity. We found that in 43 countries, theaverage age of people who shared links was considerably higher than the age of thosewho saw the links. In a more detailed study, with Facebook users in South America, wefind that the average age increases consecutively in the sharing of non-political content,in the sharing of political content, in the sharing of partisan sites and in the sharing ofright-leaning partisan sites.
Fil: Moretto, Marcio. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Fil: Ortellado, Pablo. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Fil: Kessler, Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina
Fil: Vommaro, Gabriel Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina
Fil: Rodríguez Raga, Juan Carlos. Universidad de Los Andes; Venezuela
Fil: Luna, Juan Pablo. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile
Fil: Heinen, Eduarth. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Fil: Cely, Laura Fernanda. Universidad de Los Andes; Venezuela
Fil: Toro, Sergio. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
description A growing body of literature has noted an age pattern in the sharing of false news insocial media, with older people sharing more often misinformation than younger users.In this article we supplement this literature by documenting two distinct butcomplementary phenomena: Facebook users share more content as they get olderregardless of whether it is political; and that this increment in sharing activity as ageincreases is more intense with political and partisan URLs. Based on the FacebookPrivacy-Protected Full URLs Data Set, a vast Facebook database with demographicinformation of those who saw and shared links on Facebook in 46 countries, weinvestigate the impact of age on link-sharing activity. We found that in 43 countries, theaverage age of people who shared links was considerably higher than the age of thosewho saw the links. In a more detailed study, with Facebook users in South America, wefind that the average age increases consecutively in the sharing of non-political content,in the sharing of political content, in the sharing of partisan sites and in the sharing ofright-leaning partisan sites.
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