Americans haven’t de-friended the government just yet, according to a recent Pew report: 61 percent of adults looked for information or made transactions on a government Web site in the last year, while almost a third employed social media like social networking sites, blogs, text messaging, e-mail or online video to get government information.

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While whites were more likely to be politically active online, for instance, by joining groups that seek to influence politics or posting comments about policy issues, African-Americans and Hispanics tended to have more favorable views about the necessity of government outreach through social media.

“Engagement with government using social media by African-Americans and Latinos is a continuation of a trend we first witnessed during the 2008 political campaign,” said Aaron Smith, a research specialist for Pew./p>

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