A fifth of US teens use YouTube 'almost constantly,' with TikTok not far behind

guest · Aug 11, 2022

August 10, 2022

Pew Research has published a new report that examines social media usage trends among US teens. The organization found that a whopping 95 percent of them use YouTube, while 19 percent are on the platform "almost constantly."

Perhaps unsurprisingly, two-thirds (67 percent) said they used TikTok, with 16 percent claiming they are on the app "almost constantly." The third most-popular social media platform among teens is Instagram, per Pew, with 62 percent using it.
A previous poll conducted in 2014-15 found that 52 percent were using Instagram (Pew didn't ask about YouTube usage for that survey and TikTok didn't exist at the time).
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Snapchat also rose among teens, with 59 percent using it in 2022, compared with 41 percent in the previous poll. Facebook was the top social media app among teens seven years ago, with 71 percent of them using it, but that figure has dropped to 32 percent.

Pew surveyed 1,316 teens aged 13 to 17 (as well as one of their parents) in April and May.
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Even though over half (54 percent) of teens said they'd find it hard to give up social media, 36 percent admitted they spent too much time on the platforms.

The poll found that 95 percent of teens have access to a smartphone (up from 73 percent in 2014-15), while 90 percent can access a desktop or laptop computer, up from 87 percent in the previous survey.
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Pew Research: Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022

TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply
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Nebulus · Aug 11, 2022

IMO, there is a difference between using YouTube to view some videos (maybe even without logging in) and using it as a social platform (subscribe, comment, and so on), and the study doesn't seem to make any difference between the two use cases. I believe that this is the reason that YouTube has a 95% usage.

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