Disclosure of U.S. social media users' political views via posts in 2012, by stance
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 political stance of participants. In 2012, 52 percent of liberal social network users found that someone's beliefs were different than they thought, based on something their friends had posted on social networking sites.