Disclosure of U.S. social media users' political views via posts 2012, by party
This graph shows the share of U.S. social networking site users who said they had learned via social posts that their friends' political views were different than they had thought. The responses are differentiated by the party affiliation of participants. In 2012, 49 percent of Democrat social network users found that someone's beliefs were different than they thought, based on something they posted on social networking sites.