A new survey bucks conventional wisdom and says more teens interact on image-based social network Tumblr than Facebook.
A survey of young Net users between 13 and 25 by Posterous cofounder Gary Tan has turned up some very surprising, and potentially explosive information. While 55% of 13- to 18 year-olds and 52% of 19- to 25 year-olds liked Facebook for social networking interactions, supporting the conventional notion that Facebook is the world's dominant social net, 61% of the young group and 57% of the adult group preferred Tumblr.
Social Network Usage - Results of a survey of those aged 13-18 (546 responses) and 19-25 (492 responses) - Survata for Gary Tan - Jan 2013 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Instagram, Facebook's huge and controversial billion-dollar acquisition, was liked by just 21% of the young teens and 11% of adults. Even Twitter fared badly, with 22% of teens and 17% of the young adult group liking it.
The raw numbers - Social Network Usage - Survey of 13-18 and 19-25 Year Olds - Survata for Gary Tan - Jan 2013 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Facebook's prosperity is linked to monetizing its billion-user community's social interactions. But while it unquestionably leads the field in the social networking world, its future is far from assured--all it would take is a runaway success from a newer challenger and many of its users may click away. Tumblr has been demonstrating aggressive growth in recent years, at a pace that outstrips its rivals.
Do you see yourself using Facebook (or Twitter, or Tumblr for that matter) in five years? Or will something new come along?
COMMENTARY: In the scheme of things this is not a sufficiently large enough survey for the results to be 100% conclusive. I would want to review how the survey questions were structured. When you compare a survey taken between November 14 and December 9, 2012 by Pew Research Center for its Internet & American Life Project Post-Election Survey of social network users, PEW determined that only 13% of social network users between 18-29 used Tumblr. The data was based on a survey of 1,802 users. No data was available for tweens (9-14 year olds).
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PEW also surveyed Facebook users for its Internet & American Life Project Post-Election Survey, and 86% of users 18-29 years of age used the site for their social networking needs. No data for tweens was available.
The Demographics of Facebook - PEW Survey - 2012 (Click Image To Enlarge)
As you can readily see, demographic studies can vary between researcher, sometimes by quite a bit.
Courtesy of an artoc;e dated January 10,, 2013 appearing in Fast Company, an article appearing in the Gary Tan Blog and an article dated February 14, 2013 appearing in PEW Internet
I think because most of the teens can look more friends and chats on Tumblr than Facebook but both of the are one of the most popular social media sites.
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