More Than 15% of Teens Say They're On YouTube or TikTok 'Almost Constantly'

Nearly 1 in 5 teenagers in the U.S. say they use YouTube and TikTok 'almost constantly,' according to a Pew Research Center survey. CNBC reports: The survey showed that YouTube was the most 'widely used platform' for U.S.-based teenagers, with 93% of survey respondents saying they regularly use Google's video-streaming service. Of that 93% figure, about 16% of the teenage respondents said they 'almost constantly visit or use' YouTube, underscoring the video app's immense popularity with the youth market. TikTok was the second-most popular app, with 63% of teens saying they use the ByteDance-owned short-video service, followed by Snapchat and Meta's Instagram, which had 60% and 59%, respectively. About 17% of the 63% of respondents who said they use TikTok indicated they access the short-video service 'almost constantly,' the report noted.

Meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, are not as popular with U.S.-based teenagers as they were a decade ago, the Pew Research study detailed. Regarding Facebook in particular, the Pew Research authors wrote that the share of teens who use the Meta-owned social media app 'has dropped from 71% in 2014-2015 to 33% today.' During the same period, Meta-owned Instagram's usage has not made up the difference in share, increasing from 52% in 2014-15 to a peak of 62% last year, then dropping to 59% in 2023, according to the firm.

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