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On the smartphone, 62% use social networks at least weekly. But most of these, 46% of all owners, use their smartphone for social networking on a daily basis. \u00a0Only one third of tablet owners access their social networks through their tablets each day. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> When it comes to social networking and news, smartphone owners again rely on social networks a bit more for news. Nearly half of smartphone news users, 47%, receive news through email or social networks sometimes or regularly while 35% share news this way at least sometimes. On the tablet, somewhat fewer get news this way, 39%, while a similar percentage shares news through social networking, 32%.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For both kinds of mobile news users, though, the conventional computer remains the preferred place for sharing and receiving news through social networks. 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