Teens are increasingly citing TikTok as their favorite social network. — Photography FluxFactory/Getty Images/AFP Relaxnews
They're on Snapchat, Instagram and of course TikTok. Teenagers are, like their elders, glued to their smartphones. But which social network do they prefer?
If they had to choose, then US teens would probably pick the Chinese social network. TikTok is, not surprisingly, the preferred social network of younger social media users. Research carried out by Piper Sandler via Marketing Charts surveyed more than 14,500 US teens, with an average age of 15.8 years, in October 2022. A total of 38% of them chose TikTok as their favorite platform, or four in ten teens. In the spring of the same year, this percentage was just 33%. Snapchat, the former leader before the rise of the Chinese giant, takes second place this time with 30% of responses.
Instagram ranks third, favored by 20% of respondents, compared to 22% in the last report, demonstrating a decline in favor among teens. However, Meta's application is still the most used, as the latest MarketingCharts study recalls, with 87% of respondents claiming to use Instagram at least once a month, compared to 89% in the previous report and 81% in the fall of 2021. In comparison, 83% use Snapchat and TikTok every month.
Only 2% of respondents chose Twitter and Facebook as their favorite social platform, placing them at the bottom of the ranking.
According to the results of Piper Sandler's study, teenagers spend an average of 4.4 hours a day on social networks, compared to 4.2 hours in previous surveys.
A separate study recently showed that Americans are increasingly turning to TikTok for news. – AFP Relaxnews
