70% of U.S. social media users never or rarely post or share about political, social issues
Only 9% of adult social media users say they often post or share things about political or social issues on social media.
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Only 9% of adult social media users say they often post or share things about political or social issues on social media.
A majority of Americans say they use YouTube and Facebook, while use of Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok is especially common among adults under 30.
About half of all U.S. adults who use TikTok have never posted a video themselves. And the top 25% of U.S. adults on the site by posting volume produce 98% of all publicly accessible videos from this group. Users who have posted videos are generally more active on the platform than non-posters.
Adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest age group has grown markedly since about a decade ago.
Public views are tied to how these technologies would be used and what constraints would be in place.
41% of U.S. adults say people should be able to sue social media companies for content that other users post on these companies’ platforms.
Some 49% of U.S. adults say Donald Trump’s accounts should be permanently banned from social media, while half say they should not be.
Over the years, we have studied how U.S. adults – as well as teens and children – use and engage with Instagram. Here are seven key takeaways.
Democrats are about 10 percentage points or more likely than Republicans to say they ever use Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Reddit.
Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have recently faced some kind of online harassment say it happened on social media.
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