The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a new study this week entitled "Older Adults and Social Media."

"While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled-from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010."

Read the key findings and access the full report here.