Nearly half of US teens are online almost constantly, Pew study finds
Nearly half of teens in the U.S. are online almost constantly, and the platform they’re using the most is YouTube, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found. The center reports that 46% of teens say they’re online “almost constantly,” and 90% of teens it surveyed said they use the Google-owned video platform, while 73% of them said they use the platform daily.
TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat round out the list of the top platforms for teens, as 60% of teens reported that they use TikTok and Instagram, while 55% said the same for Snapchat.
While it’s no secret that teens aren’t using Facebook as much as they used to, the study shows just how much has changed over the past decade. It found that teens’ use of Facebook has steeply declined over the past decade, from 71% to only 32% today.
Facebook isn’t the only major platform to see a decline in users, as teens’ use of X (formerly Twitter) has also dropped. The study found that 17% of teens today say they use X, which is almost half of the 33% reported a decade ago, and down from the 23% reported in 2022.
