More than half of Russian Internet users (52%) have accounts in several social networks, a poll by the Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) published on Tuesday revealed.
Sociologists portrayed the typical social network user as a resident of Russian northwest administrative district (71% of them have accounts in the social networks), aged from 18 to 24 (75%), highly-educated (57% have a higher education), and financially stable.
The poll shows that the most popular network among Russians is Vkontakte with more than 75 million registered accounts. Almost one-third of the respondents (31%) visit it daily and another 23% visit the site on a weekly basis.
The second most popular Internet spot for Russian networkers- is Odoklassniki.ru. Twenty-one percent of the users visit it daily, 28% - weekly.
Unlike Odoklassniki.ru, Vkontakte allows the posting of music and video, which the networker can share with the friends and manage his or her account by changing privacy settings.
According to the survey, other social networks are not so popular amid the Russian audience. The micro-blog network Twitter is used by only 13% of the respondents, blog-generating site Blog.ru - by 14%, Facebook and MySpace are familiar to only 15% of the respondents.
The poll was held on April 3-4, 2010, with 1,600 respondents in 140 localities of 42 regions. The margin of error is 3.4%.
MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti)
