I finally got hold of the UX user experience magazine dedicated to the topic 'How old are older users?'...
Really interesting articles - quite a bit we know already i.e. the aging process, design guidelines
The article 'Web 2.0 for an older population' looks at social networking sites and here I found for the first time a 2008 statistic on how many Facebook users over 65years old there are...
UK has the highest penetration (in percentage) with 83,060 users which makes 0.85% of the UK population. Compared with the USA 221,000 users (0.57%) and Germany 4700 users (0.02%) - which has the lowest penetration.
The article also points out how older users relate better to the word 'community' rather than social 'networking'...
I will also check out the social networking sites aimed at older people they've listed: Eons, Boomertown, Multiply and Boomj
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