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Social media users: adults by main platform
US adults who use social media, by the platform they use most: age, children, time online, whether they post or scroll, where they get news, trust, privacy worries, harassment and how social media makes them feel. For testing platform rules, age limits and feed changes on users.
7 places, by main platform
What each person has
- Age
- 18-2927%
- 30-4938%
- 50-6422%
- 65-9014%
- Children
- Has children under 1829%
- No children under 1871%
- Time on social media
- Under an hour a day30%
- 1 to 3 hours a day45%
- Over 3 hours a day25%
- How they take part
- Mostly scrolls50%
- Comments and shares28%
- Posts regularly17%
- Creates content, some for money5%
- Where they get news
- Mostly social media26%
- Social media and news outlets36%
- Mostly news outlets25%
- Avoids the news13%
- Trust in what they see
- Distrusts most of it30%
- Checks before believing55%
- Trusts most of it15%
- Privacy
- Does not worry about it20%
- Somewhat concerned47%
- Very concerned33%
- Harassed online
- Has been harassed online41%
- Has not59%
- Effect on them
- Mostly bad for them23%
- Mixed51%
- Mostly good for them26%