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Over one-half (52%) of adult Americans who use social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, have posted risky personal information online, and 23% of Facebook users haven't used the site's privacy controls to protect themselves, according to a Consumer Reports study.

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Nearly one in five US Internet users (18%) say they have purchased a product because of something they have seen on a social networking website—such as Facebook or Twitter—yet social sites continue to receive low trust and privacy ratings from consumers of all ages, according to a survey from Vision Critical.

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Driven by the need to save money during the economic downturn, consumers have been revoking their allegiance to brands in the past two years, and many have opted for cheaper brands across a variety of product categories, according to a new study from comScore.

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Parents who use Facebook are nearly evenly split between those who friend their kids on Facebook (48%) and those who do not (52%), according to a survey from Retrevo. Meanwhile, a plurality of surveyed parents (36%) say the appropriate age for children to have their own social media page is between 16 and 18.

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Even while more and more consumers are using social media to help them make purchasing decisions, most B2B marketers are not using social networking and digital marketing tools to reach their audiences, according to a study that examines marketing's evolving role in the enterprise.

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Americans now have on average 2.93 TV sets per household, up from 2.86 in 2009—the largest year-over-year increase since 2006, according to Nielsen's latest Television Audience Report. Although the US total population continues to increase, the number of people per TV home has held steady at 2.5, which means there are more TVs at home than people.

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America's small businesses are becoming more optimistic about the economy: The Discover Small Business Watch, a monthly index on the pulse of small business owners, increased to 85.1 in April 2010, up 9.4 points from March and back to levels registered at the start of the year, Discover reported.

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The number of US consumers who say they are aware of Twitter has surged to 87% in 2010, up from 26% a year earlier; but despite that near-ubiquitous awareness, just 7% of the population—approximately 17 million Americans—use Twitter, according to a survey from Edison Research and Arbitron.

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Some 31.2 billion videos were delivered to US Internet users in March 2010, up 11.0% from 28.1 billion in February, and 180.2 million people watched online videos in during the month, up 3.4% from 174.2 million in the previous month, according to comScore data.

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Technology buyers are aggressively adopting social technologies to help them make business decisions—most often using new social channels to complement traditional decision-making approaches and information sources, according to a survey from Forrester.

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Although one-half (52%) of small business owners say their business's economic situation is worse than it was 12 months earlier, almost three-quarters (73%) are optimistic about the future of their businesses, according to a February survey from Pitney Bowes.

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"Facebook" was the top search term in the US across three major search engines—Google, Yahoo, and Bing—in the four weeks ended March 27, 2010, according to Experian Hitwise.

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Social media is here to stay: Though many business leaders say social media is somewhat "over-hyped," 63% disagree with the idea that it's a marketing fad and over 80% say social media tools can provide a valuable way to monitor and engage with customers, according to a survey from SmartBrief.

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Most consumer-facing websites (92%) in the US fail to fully protect their visitors from online fraud, even as growing numbers of businesses continue to deploy online safety measures, according to the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). Among the 1,200 domains of leading companies analyzed, only 8% earned a spot on the OTA Online Safety 2010 Honor Roll.

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The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had rebounded in March, increased further in April and now stands at 57.9 (1985=100), up from 52.3 in March—and at its highest reading since Sept. 2008 (61.4), the Conference Board reported.