Look, I’m groovy. I’m hip. I’m “with it”. So, where are you teens hanging out online these days?
Oh, you’re not going to tell me?
Well, that’s cool, I’ll just totally amuse myself by reading this totally fire Pew Research study on social media to demonstrate how lit I can get.
How cool adults relate to teens.
Wait! What? This Pew study says that teens – who I totally understand and are down with – are increasingly turning their backs on Facebook, with only 51% of those aged 13 – 17 using the social media platform.
This is a precipitous – *cough* I mean totally radical – drop from the 71% who had reported they used Facebook in Pew’s 2014 – 2015 survey. Can we say WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(No really, can we? I’m losing track of what’s what in this brand new upside-down un-Facebook world)
The teens aren’t using Facebook? NOOOOOO!!!!!
The Pew study found that teens are instead using YouTube (85%), Instagram (72%), and Snapchat (69%, nice!).
Sorry, Zuck!
(Although, y’know, Facebook owns Instagram, so he’s probably fine.)
Great! Zuck owns Instagram too!!!!!
Beyond those scandalous, headline-feeding raw numbers, the Pew study also found that 70% of kids from households earning less than USD$30,000 per year were more likely to use Facebook, compared with 36% of teens whose household annual income was more than USD$75,000.
So basically, it’s saying the kids who DO use Facebook come from poorer homes.
So, what does this all mean? What else are you guys doing? Snorting condoms? Eating Tide Pods?
Hit me up with the answers over on my MySpace page.
TFW after eating Tide Pods