Poles are Social

Poland is right behind America in its use of Internet social networking services according to a  new Pew Global Attitudes study. While wildly popular in the U.S. and Poland, services like Facebook are not so popular in places like Germany and Japan who are generally viewed as high tech countries.

While America is a place where more than 80% of homes have access to the Internet, what's crazy is that, in countries such as Poland, where a far larger portion of the population has no access to the Internet, an overwhelming majority of the people who do have Internet use it for social networking.

Germans and Japanese stand out among highly connected publics for their comparatively low levels of participation in social networking. While 31% of Germans use these types of sites, 49% go online at least occasionally but choose not to use them. In Japan, 24% are engaged in social networking, while 44% have Internet access but are not engaged.