Pew Survey: 64% of Teens Use AI Chatbots, and 97% Go Online Daily

A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 U.S. teens shows how central digital platforms and AI tools have become in their daily lives. Nearly all teens (97 percent to be exact) go online each day, and four in ten say they are online almost constantly. Older teens report higher levels of constant use than younger teens, and rates are even higher among Black and Hispanic teens.

YouTube remains the most widely used platform, with roughly nine in ten teens (92 percent to be exact) reporting any use and about three-quarters (76%) visiting it daily.

As per Pew survey, six in ten say they use TikTok daily and 55 percent said this about Instagram, while 46% use Snapchat daily. Facebook and WhatsApp see lower use. Platform preferences vary across demographic groups, with girls more likely to use Instagram and Snapchat, and boys more likely to use YouTube and Reddit.

AI chatbot use is also widespread. Sixty-four percent of teens say they use chatbots, and about three in ten do so daily. Daily use is more common among Black and Hispanic teens and among older teens. ChatGPT is the most widely used chatbot, at 59%, followed by Gemini and Meta AI. Teens in higher-income households use ChatGPT at higher rates, while Character.ai is more common among teens in lower- and middle-income homes.

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Notes: This post was drafted with the assistance of AI tools and reviewed, edited, and published by humans.

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by Ayaz Khan via Digital Information World