A Fifth of US Teens Use YouTube 'Almost Constantly,' With TikTok Not Far Behind (engadget.com) 50
Pew Research has published a new report that examines social media usage trends among US teens. The organization found that a whopping 95 percent of them use YouTube, while 19 percent are on the platform "almost constantly." Engadget reports: Perhaps unsurprisingly, two-thirds (67 percent) said they used TikTok, with 16 percent claiming they are on the app "almost constantly." The third most-popular social media platform among teens is Instagram, per Pew, with 62 percent using it. A tenth say they use it almost all the time -- despite the app occasionally telling them to take a break. A previous poll conducted in 2014-15 found that 52 percent were using Instagram (Pew didn't ask about YouTube usage for that survey and TikTok didn't exist at the time).
Snapchat also rose among teens, with 59 percent using it in 2022, compared with 41 percent in the previous poll. Facebook was the top social media app among teens seven years ago, with 71 percent of them using it, but that figure has dropped to 32 percent. Teen adoption of Twitter (down from 33 percent to 23 percent) and Tumblr (14 percent to five percent) has fallen over the same period too. The 2014-15 poll didn't ask about Twitch, WhatsApp or Reddit. These days, a fifth of teens use Twitch, 17 percent are on WhatsApp and 14 percent are accessing Reddit.
Snapchat also rose among teens, with 59 percent using it in 2022, compared with 41 percent in the previous poll. Facebook was the top social media app among teens seven years ago, with 71 percent of them using it, but that figure has dropped to 32 percent. Teen adoption of Twitter (down from 33 percent to 23 percent) and Tumblr (14 percent to five percent) has fallen over the same period too. The 2014-15 poll didn't ask about Twitch, WhatsApp or Reddit. These days, a fifth of teens use Twitch, 17 percent are on WhatsApp and 14 percent are accessing Reddit.
And 80% of them are male (Score:2)
But why is this newsworthy?
Re:And 80% of them are male (Score:4, Funny)
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But why is this newsworthy?
I completely fail to see how social media, is somehow a "guy" thing. In fact, I don't believe that shit for a second so feel free to provide some proof to back up that statement.
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Instagram is for the ladies.
To be honest, I keep being told that gender is an outdated 20th Century racist construct, so not sure why we're even trying to separate the addicts from the narcissists on social media.
Shorts oof... (Score:3)
...they're literally killing youtube as we knew it.
They still haven't implemented a way to skip shorts unless you use their dedicated youtube player (you can't skip shorts on smart tv's either)
I used to enjoy the wide format videos that had become the norm, but now we're flooded with these tik-tok vertical videos. I absolutely loathe it, considering cancelling my premium subscription for the first time in years.
r.i.p. youtube.
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If you're on a PC, use a URL redirector plugin to rewrite the URL for shorts to a normal one.
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Interesting, I'll have to look into that one, thx for the tip.
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I downright refuse to put TikTok on any device I own.
I only downloaded it when the previous administration was threatening to ban it. After trying to use it though, I thought to myself "Ugh, Trump isn't totally wrong; this is garbage." and deleted it. You really do have to enjoy short format videos or get Gen-Z's humor for it to be entertaining. Anything truly worth seeing from TikTok ends up re-posted on other sites anyway.
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I'm a little bit confused. What do you mean "you can't skip short"? If I don't click them they don't play. I use youtube on my computer and my phone.
I must be missing something...
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They still haven't implemented a way to skip shorts
Huh? Is this being served up as an advert or something? I've literally never seen a short, but I also don't see any ads either for other reasons (and admittedly I don't use Youtube on the TV).
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I use an Android box for my TV (Nvidia Shield but cheaper devices work just fine, e.g. Xiaomi Mi Box) and Smart Tube. It's very similar to the official YouTube client, except that it is ad-free, and no unskippable content. And by ad-free I mean really ad-free, as in it uses Sponsor Block to skip over parts of the video that are ads or promotions for channel merchandise.
That's nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
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I see you've met my five year old.
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"I don't really care for people who say that their favorite music is whatever is playing on the radio" - Benjamin Franklin
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Socrates [bartleby.com]
NUMBER: 195
AUTHOR: Socrates (469â"399 B.C.)
QUOTATION: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277 (1953).
This passage was very popular in the 1960s and its essence was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16.
This use prompted Malcolm S. Forbes to write an editorial on youth.â"Forbes, April 15, 1966, p. 11. In that same issue, under the heading âoeSide Lines,â pp. 5â"6, is a summary of the efforts of researchers and scholars to confirm the wording of Socrates, or Plato, but without success. Evidently, the quotation is spurious.
SUBJECTS: Children
You don't think I hate the most about this quote (Score:2)
Maybe it's a bad translation but I somehow doubt it. And in any case if you ask me contempt for authority is part of a healthy Democratic Republic
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Ignorance among the youth, isn't new. Or even a derogatory statement for that matter. I've been living on this planet for many a decade now, and I'm still plenty ignorant about a lot of things. Ignorance goes hand in hand with youth quite often simply due to inexperience. Society often makes laws to protect the young and inexperienced because of this.
Authority is not something that deserves anything but contempt.
Contempt for authority is a possible outcome, but it needs to be justified. Otherwise, it's simply viewed as ignorant humans who fail to understand even w
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"You've heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons."
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
and here
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=315753
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Those Tide pods, though. Bet they didn't see that coming.
In other news... (Score:5, Insightful)
... their parents watch television "almost constantly."
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And a lot of that is used for background noise, just like the kids that run the playlists without really watching any of it.
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Exactly. I have a 15-year-old who listens to music on Youtube, so yeah she's using it "almost constantly" because she listens to music all the time.
It wasn't easy raising a family while working (Score:2)
Hell Im old and I am constantly on youtube (Score:2)
well not that old, 43, but yea youtube signed in so it mostly stays on topics I like, a long list of creators im subbed to and adblock, is my main form of video consumption
TikTok ... well if I want to see a moron shove a tennis ball up their ass, I know where to go
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Also guilty and older than you. Let's face it, YouTube is better than what is on TV. At least I think it is, there is no TV where I live unless I go with satellite, and they cost too much.
Besides where on TV will you find Russian folk music? (Beloe Zlato.) And they even have a cooking series also with songs. But watch out for the translations of the captions. One clearly said "Friends, potatoes, and carrots are boiled in their skins." Best laugh I had that day.
"Almost Constantly" (Score:2)
Yes, my young son has YouTube running almost constantly. He opens the website, starts a video, and the playlist plays almost constantly along with ads.
But he's not watching. How do I know this? He leaves it on in the room like us parents used to do with broadcast TV.
His total viewing time is a teensy tiny percentage of run-time.
So why's it called "social" media? (Score:2)
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I suppose it's social because it allows anyone to broadcast whatever they want. Some develop an audience, some do not.
The features that come with signing in are kind of nice, but not necessary to consume. I don't know how monetization works, but based upon how much broadcasters ask for likes and follows, I can only guess "named" users earn the broadcasters more than "anonymous" viewers.
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Plus one can leave immediate feedback via likes and comments. So, interactive TV. Or social TV, if you will.
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The real question is what do they mean by "use" YouTube?
Right. You summed up what I wanted to say quite nicely.
Gee was it yesterday or the day before (Score:2)
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I just learned my high school (of 30 years+ ago) is banning cell phones during school periods and it's apparently causing an uproar. People are so overreactive. Try it for a semester. You can always go back.
I'm of the age when the only cell phones in high school were a handful of the kids with rich dads who also bought them BMWs. We also has a designated smoking section back in the day which is quite a relic of the past.
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Well, question authority was the motto of the (late) sixties. Looks like the lesson took.
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It seems that having a phone "at school" is one thing. Using them in class is another. Have you seen any stories where kids refused to put them away in class without consequences?
Something to the old superstitions. (Score:2)
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Mirrors for the narcissists, cameras for the exhibitionists. Social media conveniently combines the two for us!
Youtube! and TikTok (Score:2)
Youtube! and TikTok once it was too much MTV, or Saturday morning cartoons, or video games (Atari, Coleco, Odyssey)... The shift from one to the other over the decades.
JoshK.
That's just the tip of the iceberg (Score:3)
If this is all news to you, you have no idea of how that service has matured. It's really an incredible knowledgebase.
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The key difference would be that sometimes you decide what to watch, then you turn it on and search
vs
You turn it on and let it decide for you.
FB/Meta not relevant to them (Score:2)