“Teenagers and social networks”

 


We are immersed in a changing society, in which information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an indispensable element in our lives. Adolescents are one of the most vulnerable groups to the impact of new technologies, especially when it comes to the use of computers, cell phones and video games.


It is important to establish that teenagers not only use technological tools to do homework for class, but they also use them to make use of the different social networks, such as the use of TikTok, which has become one of the main online platforms for American teenagers, while the percentage of teenagers using Facebook has plummeted.


YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms covered in the Center’s new survey, as it is used by 95% of teens. TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67%), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six-in-ten teens. After those platforms come Facebook with 32% and smaller shares who use Twitter, Twitch, WhatsApp, Reddit and Tumblr.

Changes in the social media landscape since 2014-15 extend beyond TikTok’s rise and Facebook’s fall. Growing shares of teens say they are using Instagram and Snapchat since then. Conversely, Twitter and Tumblr saw declining shares of teens who report using their platforms. And two of the platforms the Center tracked in the earlier survey – Vine and Google+ – no longer exist.

This study also explores the frequency with which teens are on each of the top five online platforms: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook. Fully 35% of teens say they are using at least one of them “almost constantly.” Teen TikTok and Snapchat users are particularly engaged with these platforms, followed by teen YouTube users in close pursuit. A quarter of teens who use Snapchat or TikTok say they use these apps almost constantly, and a fifth of teen YouTube users say the same. When looking at teens overall, 19% say they use YouTube almost constantly, 16% say this about TikTok, and 15% about Snapchat.

Consulted Source:

Pew Research Center. (2022). Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022,  recovered by https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/


Created by:  
Romina Gómez,
Viviana Noria,
Carina Pérez.   


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