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Pew survey: Nearly half of US teenagers are ‘nearly consistently’ on-line


Nearly half of US teenagers are “nearly consistently” on-line, although the platforms they spend their time on fluctuate considerably, in response to a brand new Pew survey.

Despite some selection of their general on-line habits, just about all youngsters use YouTube. Of the 1,391 youngsters polled by the Pew Research Center, 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.

Almost all youngsters polled by Pew use YouTube, however only a few are on Threads.
Pew Research Center

But there’s a gender divide, particularly amongst youngsters who say they “nearly consistently” use both app: 19 % of women say they use TikTok that always, whereas the identical share of boys are consistently on YouTube.

And even this extraordinarily on-line demographic isn’t utilizing all web sites equally. Just 6 % of youngsters polled stated they use Threads, Meta’s microblogging app, and solely 32 % use Facebook — down from 71 % a decade in the past. The solely 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. But teenagers’ use of some image-based apps — together with Snapchat — is on the decline as effectively. In reality, the one app that has skilled an increase in reputation is WhatsApp, which is now utilized by 23 % of youngsters.

Ella Bennet
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