Reddit Used By Six Per Cent Of Adult Internet Users

Sprawling online bulletin board Reddit is especially popular with young men, according to a new study. Six percent of all adults on the Internet use Reddit, and it is most popular with men between 18 and 29 -- 15 per cent of whom frequent the site. The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, an ongoing effort to study the how Americans’ use of the Internet is evolving and the impact it has on their lives. In a telephone survey of 2,252 adults, Pew found that men were twice as likely as women to use Reddit and that the site’s popularly dropped significantly with the 50-and-older age group. (CNN)