The Pew Research Centre released a survey on teens’ internet and social media habits on Monday. It found that nearly one-fifth of American teenagers said they use TikTok and YouTube “very daily.” Teens are particularly devoted to these two apps.
According to the survey, 93% of teenagers in the United States said they regularly use Google’s video-streaming service, making YouTube the most “widely used platform” for teenagers in the country. About 16% of the adolescent respondents to the 93% statistic stated they “nearly continuously visit or use” YouTube, highlighting the app’s enormous appeal among young people.
With 63% of teenagers reporting they use the ByteDance-owned short-video service TikTok, it was the second most popular app. Users of Instagram and Snapchat, with 60% and 59% of them respectively, were next in line. As to the report, over 17% of the 63% of participants who claimed to use TikTok stated they use the short-video platform “almost continuously.”
As for youths in the United States, the Pew Research research revealed that Facebook and Twitter, now dubbed X, are not as popular as they were ten years ago.
The percentage of teenagers using Facebook, in instance, “has decreased from 71% in 2014-2015 to 33% currently,” according to the Pew Research writers. The company claims that over the same time span, Instagram’s usage—which is owned by Meta—did not make up the gap in share, rising from 52% in 2014–15 to a peak of 62% in 2018, then declining to 59% in 2023.
Compared to their male contemporaries, teenage girls were found to be more likely to use apps like Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, and BeReal. However, teenage guys were more likely to use social media apps like Twitch and Discord and chat services focused on video games.
Source (CNBC)
