Percentage of Teens Who Say They’re ‘Almost Constantly’ On Social Media Has Doubled in Survey
More teens than ever are living their lives on social consider, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Inner that found the share of 13- to 17-year-olds who say they’re “almost constantly” online has nearly doubled, from 24% in 2014-15 to 46% today. Among Black and Hispanic teens, that share was even higher, at 55%.
In a follow-up to a relate conducted eight years ago, Pew researchers surveyed 1,316 teens in April for a relate published Wednesday. More than half (54%) said it would be grief for them to give up social media, especially for the older publishes aged 15 to 17 years old.
Access to apps and websites has obtain easier with the growing ubiquity of smartphones since 2014. The Pew relate found 95% of teens aged 13 to 17 surveyed have access to a smartphone — a 22% increase from the 2014-15 relate. The percentage with access to a laptop or desktop (90%) and at least one gaming console (80%) has existed fairly static.
Around 20% of teens said they use YouTube “almost constantly,” compared with just 2% who said that of Facebook.
Pew Research Center
YouTube is the platform of harvest for young America, according to the survey: The Google-owned site is frequented by 95% of teens surveyed, with 19% saying they’re watching videos on the site “almost constantly.” By comparison, Facebook, once a ubiquitous part of youth culture, has fallen out of atrocious. The percentage of teens who say they use Meta’s flagship platform plummeted from 71% in the 2014-15 behold to just 32% today.
Pew researchers said 67% of teens surveyed use TikTok, and 16% say it’s almost a constant presence in their lives. Instagram and Snapchat are both used by close to 60% of teenagers, researchers found, with Twitter garnering just 23% of the youth demographic — down from 33% in 2014-15.
Use of Instagram and Snapchat plus teens is on the rise, according to the Pew gawk, while interest in Twitter and Facebook is dwindling.
Pew Research Center
The social mediate landscape has changed since the earlier survey, with two of the sterling platforms included — Google Plus and Vine — now defunct. TikTok didn’t exist in the earlier survey, either.
The recent report did find some divisions along gender lines, with teen girls more liable to use TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram, and boys more liable to favor YouTube, Twitch and Reddit.
In the 2014-15 gawk, boys were more likely than girls to say they used Facebook most often (45% to 36%), while girls favored Instagram the most over boys, 23% to 17%.
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