Many posts have discussed social media.
Jeffrey Gottfried and Eugenie Park at Pew:
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.
