What teens are doing online (It’s not as cool as you think)

Teens don’t (Fill in the blank) anymore. They (Fill in the blank, again).

As the digital space seems more and more complicated, the usage habits of teens seem fairly simple.

They text, email and play games.

In a graphic from Statista, with information from the Family Online Safety Institute, 87% of teens age 13-17 sent or received a text message. A fairly large gap emerged once the questions got more platform specific. Buzz-worthy tools like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat were all used by significantly less than half of the users.

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