VIDBE-Q Volume 69 Issue 4
three-quarters of U.S. teenagers (71%) use YouTube daily, while the majority of
teenagers (58%) report the same about TikTok (Anderson et al., 2023). About half
of U.S. teenagers use Instagram (51%) or Snapchat (47%) at least once a day,
while 19% report daily use of Facebook (Anderson et al., 2023). Furthermore,
nearly half of U.S. teenagers (46%) say they use the internet "almost constantly."
Notably as well, this number of teenagers who are using the internet "almost
constantly" is roughly double the 24% who said this in a Pew Research Center
2014-2015 survey. Anderson et al. (2023) found that teenagers are less likely to be
using Facebook and X than they were ten years ago. Facebook use has declined
drastically from 71% in the Pew Research Center 2014-2025 survey to 33% in the
most recent year and only 19% of U.S. teenagers reporting daily use of Facebook
(Anderson et al., 2023). Thus, the most current research on U.S. teenagers revealed
that YouTube is the most dominant source for social media among U.S. teenagers
ages 13 to 17 and Facebook, the social media platform that once dominated the
landscape of social media for these U.S. teenagers is no longer a widely popular
option (Anderson et al., 2023).
Parents and educators of students with visual impairments need to follow
these trends in the general population of U.S. youth that have evolved drastically
and continue to evolve at a rapid pace to provide students who are visually
impaired with the most robust social experiences possible. One of many possible
