How Teenagers Life Has Become More Social Media Life
The digital landscape has put increased pressure on teenagers today, and we feel it. There are so many social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, you name it and as a result online world has become a complicated one, but that doesn’t mean that your Twittering teen has to get lost in its murky depths because social networks are mostly positive it’s up to you how you use them. This is a stat about the habit of teens, how they use social media platforms.
- 95% teens have access to the internet in the US
- 90% of them are on social media only
- 75% of them having smartphone
Social Media Addicted Teens
Early Morning Social Media Updates
55% teens update their social account posting summer vacation on FACEBOOK.
30% teens prefer posting about summer vacation on TWITTER.
Getting Ready for College and School
30% of teens post their photo on INSTAGRAM when they get ready.
Driving Time
70% of teens listen to songs when they drive.
At Classrooms
- 90% texts are read within 3 minutes of delivery.
- And using smartphones in the classroom has increased engagements and creativity.
- 75% teachers have found YouTube and digital gadgets useful
- 85% teachers have also found YouTube more distracting for teens
Break Time
- 80% Time checking
- 65% Emails checking
- 60% Social Media
- 40% Surfing
- 10% Games
After College and School (evening)
- In US 75% teens use their smartphones while watching TV.
- 90% of teens use WHATSAPP messenger.
- 30% of teens use FACEBOOK messenger.
Night Time
65% of teens use TUMBLER at night for blogging on a regular basis.
Average visit for TUMBLER is 14 minutes
Positive Facts about social media with respect to Teens
We love our Social Media
On an average
We do 70% of Texts Visit 50% Social sites
Post pictures on Instagram 40% Send receive Tweets 11%
75% of us having social media profiles and our preferences are
68% FACEBOOK
40% INSTAGRAM 10% TWITTER
20% SNAPCHAT 5% GOOGLE+
25% of us use at least 2 different accounts.
Social Media is beneficial too
We feel it help our relationships with friends (50%) and family (35%)
It makes us feel less shy (30%) and more confident (20%)
Only 5% of US teens feel that using social media make us more depressed as compared to 10% of other teens who think using social media make them feel less stressed.
In person Communication Instead of Texting
Face to face 50%
By Texting 30
Through social networks 10%
By phone calls 4%
Twitter 1%
It is admitted that using social media
Makes us confused about the actually feeling of another person.
Reduces the time when we can talk face to face
Distracts us from the people we are with
Make you frustrated when you see your friends are more with their gadgets.
Social media is not a Gender neutral
On an average, it has found that girls use more social media as compared to boys and posting photos on social media are more a girl thing.
Girls Boys
70% girls’ texts daily 60% boys’ texts daily
30% of them tweet daily 20% of them tweet daily
75% Love to posting photos 45% Love to posting photos
Final Thought
Everything has their good and bad side, as it gives the best benefits like the online medical guide or anything online tutorials help guide etc. but at the same place using more gadgets can make us ill also. Therefore we have to decide which part of social media makes out good for us.
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