YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat is the most popular online platform among teenagers. 95% of teens have access to smartphones and 45% say they're "almost always" online
Until now, Facebook dominates the social media landscape among American youth, but according to a new Pew Research Center survey, this is no longer the most popular online platform among teenagers. Today, it is said that about half of American teenagers aged 13 to 17 years (51%) use Facebook significantly more than sharing using Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat.
Changes in the use of social media from this teenager, 2014 - since 2015 amid the latest investigation of teenagers and the use of technology, not just one example has evolved for how the evolution of technology youth. Most notably, smartphone owners are an almost ubiquitous element in teenage life. Currently, 95% of teens report smartphones and permissions. This mobile connection promotes more permanent online activity. Today, 45% of teenagers are online almost constantly.
In this survey, we also learned that there is no clear agreement among adolescents about the impact of social media on the lives of young people. Some ethnic teenagers express the effect is mostly positive (31%) or predominantly negative (24%), the largest share (45%) of the positive impact is not even negative.
These are some of the main findings of a US adolescent household survey conducted from March 7 to April 10, 2018. Throughout the report, "teens" refer to people aged 13 to 17.
Facebook is no longer the dominant online platform among teenagers
The social media situation in which young people live is completely different from three years ago. According to the Center's survey of social media use by teenagers from 2014 to 2015, 71% of teenagers were reported as Facebook users. Half of the adolescents (52%) answered that they used Instagram, and 41% said they used Snapchat.
Three non-Facebook online platforms, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, are used in 2018 for most of this age group. Meanwhile, now say that 51% of teens use Facebook. The teens who use Twitter and Tumblr are almost identical to those in the 2014-2015 survey.
In most cases, adolescents tend to use the same platform regardless of demographic characteristics, with the exception. In particular, low-income young people are more likely to be attracted to Facebook than high-income households - a tendency to agree with previous center studies. The family's annual income is 36% above $ 75,000, while the family teenagers living in households earning less than $ 30,000 per year say they use Facebook.
It is important to note that there are questionable changes between the Pew Research Center 2014-2015 survey and the 2018 adolescent social media usage survey. In surveys from 2014 to 2015, YouTube and Reddit are not included as an option but are included in the current survey. In addition, select those in the 2014-2015 survey, it is necessary to explicitly answer to the respondents about whether to use each platform, in the 2018 survey, which presented the list of sites to the respondents, using I can do 1. The social media environment is currently less focused on one platform compared to three years ago.2
Snap charts (35%) and YouTube (32%) are the most used online platforms of this online platform, and 15% say they are the same as Instagram. In contrast, 10% of teenagers are online platforms most frequently used by Facebook and say that Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr are never quoted most often.
Again, low-income teens are much more likely than the most frequently used online platform on Facebook (22% versus 4%) than high-income households. There are differences related to gender, race, ethnicity, but this is the most popular teen site. Girls are more inclined than girls (39% versus 25%), Snatcher is said to be the most used site (42% vs. 29%). In addition, Caucasian teenagers (27 percent) of Hispanics (29 percent) and black and white teenagers (23 percent) claimed to be the online platform for the most frequent use of Snapchat, black and white teens Facebook was the largest (26% versus 7% .
Teens share opinions about the impact of social media in their lives.
Despite the ubiquitous social media penetration there is no clear agreement among adolescents about the final impact of this platform on the age of people. Many teenagers (45%) believe that social media has no positive or negative impact on the age of the person. On the other hand, about a third of adolescents (31%) responded that social media had an almost positive effect, and 24% showed the most negative effects.
Given the opportunity to explain their words in their own words, adolescents who say social media is most effective in most cases, adolescents emphasize issues related to connections and connections with others. There is a tendency to do so. About 40% of these respondents say that social media has a positive effect when social media helps interact with and interact with others. Many of these answers highlight how social media can facilitate communication with family and friends and connect with new people.
"I think that social media can have a positive effect because we can talk to distant family" (14-year-old girl)
"Social media can make people feel my age, I will create space to interact with people" (girl 15 years)
"People can easily connect with friends and make new friends" (Boy, 15 years old)
Other members of this group mentioned the possibility of interacting with news and information (16%) promoted by social media and people sharing the same interest (15%).
"My mother always has to go to the library to get what's in my hands, she reminds me a lot of things." (Girl, 14 years old)
"It gives us an outlet that expresses my opinions and feelings to many children and people who feel the same way" (15-year-old girl)
Small-scale stocks can gain support from social media entertainment (9%), space for self-expression (7%), or other (5%), common (4%).
"Because there are many creative things, I can spread the joy" (17 years old)
"[Social media] can freely communicate and see what others are doing [it gives us a voice that can reach many people." , 15 years)
"We often seek help through social media that easily connects people in various places and saves people" (15-year-old girl)
There is a small consensus among teenagers who say social media has a bad influence on the age of people. The top answer (27% of these adolescents refer) is that social media has caused bullying and the spread of rumors as a whole.
"Tell people to a larger audience, teach dislike, avoid each other" (Boy, 13)
"I can say whatever I want without a name, I think it has a negative impact" (Bocah, 15 years old)
"A teenager kills everyone for what's seen in social media and what's happening on social media" (14-year-old girl)
On the other hand, 17% of these respondents feel that this platform is destroying their relationship and producing meaningful human interactions as a result. The same part is that social media distorts reality and gives unrealistic views about the lives of others (15%) in their teenagers, or teenagers spending undue time on social media (14%) Think.
"It affects social (human) interaction" (Bocah, 17 years old)
"Since I'm used to interacting with people and people, it makes it hard to get along in real life" (15-year-old girl)
"It gives a false picture of a person's life, sometimes I feel that my life is not perfect." (Girl, 15 years old)
"[Teenagers] do not do their homework, it's easier to scroll on the phone, it's just a big distraction." (Bocah, 17 years old)
Another 12% criticized social media by affecting teenagers, but small stocks expressed concerns that these sites could cause psychological and drama problems.
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