(2018-06-01) Teens Are Abandoning Facebook For Real This Time

Teens Are Abandoning Facebook. For Real This Time.

Facebook is no longer the dominant social network among teens, according to Pew’s survey of 743 U.S. residents aged 13 to 17, conducted between March 7 and April 10, 2018.

YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat have all surpassed Facebook in popularity.

YouTube is used by the highest proportion (85 percent), while Snapchat is the one that the highest proportion say they use most often (35 percent).

Pew actually didn’t include YouTube in its earlier surveys

Meanwhile, the survey does not include messaging services such as Whatsapp or iMessage, which could be considered rivals to Snapchat especially.

That said, it’s noteworthy that only 51 percent now say they use Facebook. That’s a dramatic drop from 2015, when 71 percent said the same. Even sharper has been the dropoff in those who identify Facebook as their most-used social platform: from 41 percent in 2015 to just 10 percent today.