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Nearly one-half of teen in the U.S. are online almost constantly , and the platform they ’re using the most is YouTube , anew studyfrom the Pew Research Center has found . The Center reports that 46 % of teens say they ’re online “ almost constantly , ” and 90 % of teen it surveyed said they use the Google - owned picture platform , while 73 % of them pronounce they apply the platform day by day .
TikTok , Instagram , and Snapchat round out the list of the top platforms for adolescent , as 60 % of teens reported that they utilise TikTok and Instagram , while 55 % say the same for Snapchat .
While it ’s no closed book that teens are n’t using Facebook as much as they used to , the report shows just how much has changed over the past decade . It found that teens ’ usance of Facebook has steeply decline over the past decade , from 71 % to only 32 % today .
Facebook is n’t the only major platform to see a decline in users , as teenager ’ use of disco biscuit ( formerly Twitter ) has also dropped . The study found that 17 % of teens today say they use X , which is almost half of the 33 % report a decade ago , and down from the 23 % reported in 2022 .
