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Teens and social media: Key findings from Pew Research Center surveys
Only a minority of teens say their parents are extremely or very worried about their social media use
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- Teens and social media: Key findings from Pew Research Center surveys
- Since 2014-15, TikTok has arisen; Facebook usage has dropped; Instagram, Snapchat have grown.
- Teen girls are more likely than boys to use TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat; teen boys more likely to use Twitch, Reddit and YouTube; Black teens are especially drawn to TikTok compared with other groups
- Roughly one-in-five teens are almost constantly on YouTube; only 2% say the same for Facebook
- 54% of teens say it would be hard to give up social media
- More teens say social media has had a negative effect on people their age than on them, personally
- Teen girls are more likely than boys to say social media makes them feel more supported but also overwhelmed by drama, excluded by firends
- Half of teens think banning users who bully or criminal charges against them would help a lot in reducing the cyberbullying teens may face on social media
- Older teen girls more likely than younger girls or boys to say they don’t post things on social media because they’re worried it could be used to embarrass them
- A majority of teens feel as if they have little to no control over their data being collected by social media companies… but only one-in-five are extremely or very concerned about the amount of information these sites have about them
- Only a minority of teens say their parents are extremely or very worried about their social media use
- Parents more likely to be concerned about their teens seeing explicit content on social media than these sites leading to anxiety, depression or lower self-esteem