Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Online security can take many forms, whether it’s a company’s privacy policy or the password you choose for your email. This chapter discusses Americans’ views of and habits toward privacy policies, passwords and cybersecurity. In some cases, these opinions and experiences differ significantly by age, education level, race and ethnicity. How people approach privacy policies […]
We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.
The findings in this report are based on an analysis of the browsing behaviors of 900 U.S. adults who are members of the KnowledgePanel Digital online panel, a subset of Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel. These panelists qualified for the study because they: After the March monitoring period, panelists’ web browsing activity logs were delivered on April 7, […]
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.
85% of U.S. teens say they play video games. They see both positive and negative sides, from making friends to harassment and sleep loss.
Americans are most skeptical about U.S. trade with China: 10% say it benefits the U.S. more than China, while 46% take the opposite view.
Parents are more worried than teens about teen mental health. Both groups – especially parents – partly blame social media. But teens also see benefits.
The share of Americans who say they are very or somewhat concerned about government use of people’s data has increased from 64% in 2019 to 71% today. Two-thirds (67%) of adults say they understand little to nothing about what companies are doing with their personal data, up from 59%.
Internet use is nearly ubiquitous in Germany, but social media use is not. In fact, Germans stand out internationally for their relatively light use of social media.
About one-in-five Hispanic adults (22%) say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 28% in 2022. The share of U.S. adults overall who say they closely follow the news also has been declining. Although we did not ask this question of the overall U.S. population in 2023, Latinos were less […]
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