Pew Research published a examine the social network usage trends of US teenagers. The organization found that a whopping 95% of them use while 19% were on the platform “almost continuously.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, 2/3 (67%) say they have used , with 16% claiming they were on the app “almost constantly”. The third most popular social media platform among teenagers is , according to Pew, with 62 percent using it. One in ten say they use it almost all the time – even though the app sometimes asks them to . An earlier poll found that 52% were using Instagram (Pew didn’t ask about YouTube usage for that survey, and TikTok didn’t exist at the time).
also increased among teenagers, with 59% using it by 2022, compared with 41% in the previous poll. was the top social media app among teens seven years ago, with 71% of them using it, but that number has dropped to 32%. Adopted Teenagers (down from 33 percent to 23 percent) and (14% to 5%) has also decreased over the same period.
The 2014-15 poll doesn’t ask about , or . Today, one in five teens use Twitch, 17% on WhatsApp and 14% are on Reddit. For what it’s worth, previous polling found that 33 percent of teens use Google+, while a quarter use Vine. This time, Pew didn’t ask teenagers about their use or social game spaces such as .
Pew surveyed 1,316 teenagers ages 13 to 17 (as well as their parents) in April and May. It found that boys are more likely to use YouTube, Twitch and Reddit, and girls are more likely to say they visit TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. More black and Hispanic teens say they use TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp than white teens.
Although more than half (54%) of teens said they find it difficult to give up social media, 36% admit that they spend too much time on platforms. About 55% said their usage was “right”. Meanwhile, 97% of today’s teens use the Internet every day, with 46% saying they’re online almost all of the time.
The poll found that 95% of teenagers have access to a smartphone (up from 73% in 2014-15), while 90% can access a desktop or laptop computer, an increase from 87% in the previous survey. Curiously, the percentage of teens who said they had access to a game console dropped slightly, from 81% to 80%.
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