Table 3.
Social media behaviors by gender, nativity, and survey language.
| Behavior | Gender | Nativity | Survey language | ||||
| Female (n = 244) |
Male (n = 178) |
US-born (n = 150) |
Foreign-born (n = 238) |
English (n = 262) |
Spanish (n = 166) |
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| Access to cell phone, n (%) | 206 (90.8%) | 143 (90.5%) | 125 (91.2%) | 195 (89.9%) | 224 (93.3%) | 126 (86.3%)* | |
| Frequency of SMS a use (messages/day), n (%) | |||||||
| Low (1–20) | 45 (29%) | 38 (33%) | 27 (27%) | 52 (35.9%) | 42 (24%) | 41 (43%)*** | |
| Medium (1–100) | 40 (26%) | 36 (32%) | 32 (31%) | 38 (26%) | 47 (27%) | 30 (32%)*** | |
| High (101+) | 71 (46%) | 40 (35%) | 43 (42%) | 55 (38%) | 87 (49%) | 24 (25%)*** | |
| Daily Internet use, n (%) | 170 (76.2%) | 105 (67.3%)* | 107 (77.5%) | 145 (68.7%) | 183 (76.6%) | 93 (66%)* | |
| Social networking account, n (%) | 224 (98.3%) | 154 (95.7%) | 137 (98.6%) | 211 (96.4%) | 239 (98.8%) | 140 (94.6%)** | |
| Facebook account, n (%) | 196 (86.0%) | 141 (87.6%) | 125 (89.9%) | 184 (84.0%) | 220 (90.9%) | 118 (79.7%)** | |
| Mean number of social networking accounts | 3.11 | 2.61** | 3.41 | 2.54*** | 3.41 | 2.07*** | |
| Daily logging in to social networking account, n (%) | 174 (77.7%) | 113 (73.4%) | 104 (75.9%) | 154 (73.0%) | 186 (77.8%) | 102 (72.9%) | |
a Short message service.
*P < .05, **P < .01, ***P < .001.