Pew Internet and American Life released a study this week on adult use of social networking tools. Did you know that the percentage of adults with profiles on social networking site went from 8 percent in 2005 to 35 percent in 2008?

Younger online adults are much more likely than their older counterparts to use social networks, with 75% of adults 18-24 using these networks, compared to just 7% of adults 65 and older. At its core, use of online social networks is still a phenomenon of the young but that’s changing.

You can check out Bill Coleman’s profile on Facebook.

Pew Internet & American Life recently released the results of their third survey to tech leaders on what they predicted/hoped for the Internet’s future.

Here’s what the research indicated:

• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
• Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing arms race, with the crackers who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.
• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.
• Next-generation engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.