Despite reports about the negative impact of social media on young users and their digital presence, it appears that the youth of today cannot have enough daily doses of Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) online video-sharing platform, YouTube and ByteDance-owned TikTok.
What Happened: As per the latest survey report of Pew Research Center titled “Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023,” YouTube, Snap Inc.’s (NYSE:SNAP) Snapchat and Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) Instagram are the most widely used social media platforms among teens.
YouTube and TikTok are the most frequently used platforms, followed by Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. “A third of teens use at least one of these five sites almost constantly – which is similar to what we ...