A Central PA schoolteacher is held up as an example of the growth among older users of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, reports CNN.
"It definitely has changed my whole life -- that's how significant Twitter is to me," said (Nancy) Ehrlich, who now regularly chats with educators around the world and helps host a weekly forum for them on the micro-blogging site. "At first, I didn't really get it. But I just kept watching it and, before you knew it, I was hooked."
Between April 2009 and May, the percentage of internet users 50 and up who said they use social-networking sites has risen from 22 percent to 42 percent, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center.
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