Okay, which of you are still using Facebook?

For a level that everybody claims to person quit, Facebook is astonishingly resilient. A whopping 71 percent of American adults inactive usage the tract — and much than fractional cheque it regular — according to a caller Pew study, cementing it arsenic 1 of the fewer constants successful an different shifting societal media landscape. 

And it’s not alone. YouTube is the lone level adjacent much ubiquitous than Facebook, with 84 percent of adults saying they usage it — a fig that, similar Facebook’s, has hardly shifted successful years — and astir fractional doing truthful each day. They’re besides the lone 2 platforms with cosmopolitan reach, being utilized by a wide bulk crossed each property brackets surveyed, from teens to retirees.  

From there, things commencement to splinter. Instagram — the lone different level utilized by astatine slightest fractional of adults — shows a overmuch sharper property disagreement than YouTube oregon Facebook. Four-fifths of adults ages 18-29 said they usage it, compared to conscionable 19 percent of those ages 65 and over. This holds for astir each platforms, with younger users reporting higher usage. There are similar, though little dramatic, gaps for TikTok, Reddit, and Snapchat. The lone objection is Donald Trump’s Truth Social, which skews older and attracts a proportionally higher stock of adults 50 and over. 

There’s a governmental dimension, too. Truth Social and Bluesky — some comparative newcomers successful the societal media satellite — amusement unmistakable partisan leanings, apt magnified by their comparatively tiny idiosyncratic bases of conscionable 3 percent and 4 percent of adults, respectively. Truth Social skews heavy Republican, with 6% of Republican oregon Republican-leaning respondents saying they usage it compared to conscionable 1 percent of Democrats. Bluesky shows the reverse: 8 percent of Democrats study utilizing it, versus lone 1 percent of Republicans. 

Pew’s numbers besides constituent to a broader realignment connected X, formerly Twitter. Two years ago, the level was favored by Democrats, with much than a 4th reporting they utilized it compared to a 5th of Republicans. Today, the numbers person fundamentally flipped, with 24 percent of Republicans present reporting to usage X, compared to 19 percent of Democrats.