Half of teenagers say they use internet “almost constantly”
Nearly half of teens say they use the internet “almost constantly” which is roughly double the 24% who said so 2014-2015. Overall, more than nine-in-ten say they use the internet at least daily, a survey of US teenagers social media shows. YouTube continues to dominate. Roughly nine-in-ten teens in the Pew Research Centre survey say they use YouTube, making it the most widely used platform by teenagers.
TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram remain popular among teens: Majorities of teens ages 13 to 17 say they use TikTok (63%), Snapchat (60%) and Instagram (59%). For older teens ages 15 to 17, these shares are about seven-in-ten.
The survey shows that teens are less likely to be using Facebook and Twitter (recently renamed X) than they were a decade ago:
“Facebook once dominated the social media landscape among America’s youth, but the share of teens who use the site has dropped from 71% in 2014-2015 to 33% today. Twitter, which was renamed X in July 2023, has also seen its teen user base shrink during the past decade – albeit at a less steep decline than Facebook.”
YouTube, the most widely used platform measured in the survey, is also frequently visited by its users. About seven-in-ten teens say they visit the video-sharing platform daily, including 16% who report being on the site almost constantly.
At the same time, 58% of teens are daily users of TikTok. This includes 17% who describe their TikTok use as almost constant.
About half of teens use Snapchat and Instagram daily. A somewhat larger share reports using Snapchat almost constantly compared with Instagram (14% vs. 8%).
Far fewer teens say they use Facebook on a daily basis (19%), with only 3% saying they are on the site almost constantly.
Teen girls are more likely than boys to say they almost constantly use TikTok (22% vs. 12%) and Snapchat (17% vs. 12%).
But there are little to no differences in the shares of boys and girls who report almost constantly using YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
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