Facebook users more trusting, engaged, says study

(CBS/AP) - Think the use of social networks causes people to be, well, less social? Think again.

A new survey is countering the idea that people who use sites like Facebook and Twitter are more isolated than those who don't.

The study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project finds that Facebook users are more trusting, have more close friends and get more social support than their non-networked counterparts.

The survey finds that if you factor out other issues, people who use Facebook have 9 percent more close ties in their overall social network than other Internet users.

Social networks are more in use now than ever.

Of U.S. Internet users, 59 percent use at least one social network - that's up from 34 percent in 2008.