YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram remain the most widely used online platforms among U.S. teens. And teens are less likely to be using Facebook and Twitter (recently renamed X) than they were a decade ago.
YouTube continues to dominate. Roughly nine-in-ten teens say they use YouTube, making it the most widely used platform measured in our survey.
But how many use it as a social network and how many just watch videos there? I use it a lot, but I just consume music or videos I manually search for and don’t use the comments at all. Does that really qualify as a social platform use at that point? Certainly it’s not as social as something like FB or Insta or Twitter.
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But how many use it as a social network and how many just watch videos there? I use it a lot, but I just consume music or videos I manually search for and don’t use the comments at all. Does that really qualify as a social platform use at that point? Certainly it’s not as social as something like FB or Insta or Twitter.