Almost half of US teenagers are “nearly continuously” on-line, although the platforms they spend their time on fluctuate considerably, in keeping with a brand new Pew survey.
Regardless of some selection of their total on-line habits, nearly all youngsters use YouTube. Of the 1,391 youngsters polled by the Pew Analysis Heart, 90 % stated they use the location, a slight lower from 95 % in 2022. And 73 % of them go on YouTube each day, making it by far the most well-liked platform for teenage customers. The second-most in style app is TikTok, which 63 % of teenagers say they use.
However there’s a gender divide, particularly amongst youngsters who say they “nearly continuously” use both app: 19 % of ladies say they use TikTok that usually, whereas the identical share of boys are continuously on YouTube.
And even this extraordinarily on-line demographic isn’t utilizing all web sites equally. Simply 6 % of youngsters polled stated they use Threads, Meta’s microblogging app, and solely 32 % use Fb — down from 71 % a decade in the past. The one Meta product a majority of youngsters use is Instagram, whose reputation has elevated since 2014.
There appears to be a choice for image- and video-based platforms among the many youngsters polled: X and Reddit have been additionally a lot much less in style, with 17 % and 14 % of teenagers saying they use them, respectively. And teenagers’ X utilization has declined considerably over the previous decade: a decade in the past, when it was nonetheless known as Twitter, 33 % of US teenagers used it. However teenagers’ use of some image-based apps — together with Snapchat — is on the decline as nicely. In reality, the one app that has skilled an increase in reputation is WhatsApp, which is now utilized by 23 % of youngsters.
