---
"title": "Family Web Bonding"
"description": "A quarter of online adults (23%) have used the web to search for information about their family."
"date": "2008-11-23"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Pew Research Center"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2008/11/23/family-web-bonding/"
---

# Family Web Bonding

Slightly fewer than a quarter of online adults (23%) have searched for a family member with an internet search engine. While adults ages 18-29 were more likely than those 30-49 to search online for information about friends, the opposite is true for seaches about family, with those 30-49 (26%) more likely to use a search engine to gather information about family members than those 18-29 (24%). [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/663/digital-footprints)