U.S. adolescents are keeping up with YouTube and TikTok, experiencing a use rate of nearly 1 in 5 professing to make use of these video-streaming platforms "almost constantly," as a new survey by Pew Research Center uncovered.Comparatively, the latest study on teen utilization of social media was akin to last year's report from Pew Research, which demonstrated that "teenager's website and application usage has been fairly static in the past year."Relative to Facebook, the Pew Research writers noted that the share of teens using the Meta-owned social media app "has decreased from 71% in 2014-2015 to 33% presently."
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. teenagers told a Pew Research Center survey published Monday that they almost constantly use YouTube and TikTok, with YouTube being the most widely used platform. Of the 93% of teens who actively use YouTube, 16% said they use it "almost constantly". TikTok usage, meanwhile, is at 63%, of which 17% access the short-video service almost constantly.In the same period, Facebook usage has dropped from 71% in 2014-2015 to 33%, while Instagram has fluctuated from 52% in 2014-15 to a peak of 62% last year, then falling to 59% in 2023. Additionally, teenage girls use more BeReal, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook than teenage boys, who opt for video game-centric messaging and social apps such as Discord and Twitch.When broken down by race and ethnicity, 80% of Black teenagers, 70% of Hispanic teens and 57% of white teens use TikTok. Additionally, Hispanic teens are more likely to use WhatsApp than Black or white teens.The findings of the latest survey indicate that teen app usage has remained largely unchanged since spring 2022. Montana, however, recently blocked a TikTok ban, the judge deeming it to violate the first amendment. The survey was conducted among 1,500 13- to 17-year-olds from Sept. 26 to Oct. 23, 2023.
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