Jennifer L. Jacobsen, director of PR and Social Media for the electronics review blog, Retrevo.com,  has compiled some interesting statistics regarding how us parents use social media in our daily lives. The respondents in the study consisted of over 1,000  online individuals in June of 2011, compiled by an independent panel.

The study found:

• 18% of parents say they feel like they couldn’t stop using Facebook/Twitter even if they wanted to.
• 47% of parents of kids under 19 say they’ve used Facebook to learn more about their kid’s friends.
• iPhone owning parents (iParents) are twice as likely (28%)  to get anxious when they don’t check Facebook/Twitter as most parents (14%).
• Dads are more likely (13%) to use Facebook to learn about their kid’s dates than moms (10%).
• - iParents are twice as likely to use Facebook to learn about their kid’s dates than Droid owning parents.
• iPhone owning parents are four times LESS likely to have under 50 Facebook friends.
• 32% of iParents have over 250 friends (compared with 23% of other parents).

Check out the full article here.