Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 (Pew Research)

[Maru]

For those who like statistics...

For the Full Report:
Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/

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Which online platforms do Americans most commonly use?
A bar chart showing thay Most U.S. adults use YouTube, Facebook; half report using Instagram

YouTube and Facebook remain the most widely used online platforms. The vast majority of U.S. adults (84%) say they ever use YouTube. Most Americans (71%) also report using Facebook. These findings are according to a Pew Research Center survey of 5,022 U.S. adults conducted Feb. 5-June 18, 2025.

Half of adults say they use Instagram, making it the only other platform in our survey used by at least 50% of Americans.

Smaller shares use the other sites and apps we asked about, such as TikTok (37%) and WhatsApp (32%). Somewhat fewer say the same of Reddit, Snapchat and X (formerly Twitter).

This year we also asked about three platforms that are used by about one-in-ten or fewer U.S. adults: Threads, Bluesky, and Truth Social.

Center studies also find that YouTube is the most widely used online platform among U.S. teens, like it is among U.S. adults.

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[Maru]

Nooo, wrong forum. If a mod could move this please? Annie James Niamh. Sorry!

[Niamh.]

Nooo, wrong forum. If a mod could move this please? Annie James Niamh. Sorry!

I moved it to SD's and News, is that what you wanted?

[bots]

when you get 50% or more of a population using a service, that's a pretty huge achievement, and meta do it over and over again :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I hate Facebook, its the worst usability of any social media platform, Instagram is the second worst

[Zizu]

I hate Facebook, its the worst usability of any social media platform, Instagram is the second worst


100% agreed on FaceWipe or ArseBook

99% of posts are poorly acted , staged clips and variations on a theme so not even original .. and it’s the only one I deleted

[Maru]

I moved it to SD's and News, is that what you wanted?

Yes it seems serious enough. Thank you

[Niamh.]

Yes it seems serious enough. Thank you

:love:

[Parmy]

King YouTube.

[Zizu]

King YouTube.


Yeah its definitely my favourite with X in second place and Instagram third …

[Maru]

I hate Facebook, its the worst usability of any social media platform, Instagram is the second worst

FB is very useful for what I do, but their site is set back in the stone age. I remember when it was for university/higher education users only and it hasn't changed all that much. I don't use the app since I don't use it daily, but I use the mobile website for what I need and then get off. It is very buggy, especially for text input. I can't deny all the groups and online networking stuff is on there... YT is the obvious GOAT and I consider it my primary "social media".