{"id":1081,"date":"2014-02-03T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=17424"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:49:30","slug":"what-are-younger-americans-doing-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/02\/what-are-younger-americans-doing-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Younger Americans Doing on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As Facebook marks its 10th anniversary tomorrow, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says the company is looking forward to another decade of \u201chelping connect the rest of the world.\u201d  The site has already done a pretty thorough job of connecting facebook logoAmericans, with 45 percent reporting in 2012 that they used Facebook at least a few times a week. 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