Time online
The following was gathered from a 2018 Pew Research Center survey of American teens:
4 Almost 95 percent of teens now say they have or have access to a smartphone.
4 Smartphone ownership is nearly universal among teens of different genders, races and ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.
4 45 percent of teens say they are online on a near-constant basis.
4 Another 44 percent say they go online several times a day, meaning roughly 90 percent of teens are online multiple times per day.
4 51 percent of teens say they use Facebook, but only 10 percent of teens say Facebook is their most-used online platform, and even fewer cite Twitter, Reddit or Tumblr as the site they visit most often.
4 Roughly one-third say they visit Snapchat (35 percent) or YouTube (32 percent) most often, while 15 percent say the same of Instagram.
4 Video game usage is becoming a form of social media.
4 Overall, 84 percent of teens say they have or have access to a game console at home, and 90 percent say they play video games of any kind (whether on a computer, game console or cellphone).
4 83 percent of girls and 97 percent of boys say they play video games in some form or fashion.
