Platforms & Services

In focus groups, highly engaged social media users describe the purposes that different platforms serve for them, their choices about what to reveal and how they try to anticipate any hostile reactions that could be lurking.

About a quarter of U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online or on TV, and most of them are highly satisfied with the experience. About two-in-ten Americans (21%) use apps or websites to help with reading scripture.

Just 14% of all U.S. adults say they have used ChatGPT for entertainment, to learn something new, or for their work.

23% of the prominent accounts on the seven alternative social media sites studied sought financial support from their audiences in June 2022.

With Musk at the helm, here are four facts about how adult Twitter users in the United States are using the site.

A quarter of Americans who have used Twitter in the past year say they are not likely to use it a year from now.

Since Elon Musk's take over of Twitter, Republican users have more positive views of the site, while those of Democratic users are more negative.

More than half of U.S. teens say it would be difficult for them to give up social media. 36% say they spend too much time on social media.

A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one podcast dominates.

Roughly half of U.S. adults say they have listened to a podcast in the past year, including one-in-five who report listening at least a few times a week. Most podcast listeners say this experience includes hearing news, which they largely expect to be mostly accurate. Large shares of listeners say they turn to podcasts for entertainment, learning or having something to listen to while doing something else.