The growth has been stagnant over the past few years after active progress in tech adaptation. As per Anderson, this trend cannot be linked to any other past incident particularly, but there has not been much progress either in tech adoption overall, be it in terms of smartphones, tablets or computer ownership. Though the the number of users has not reduced, inactivity or slowdown in the use have been noticed to some extent in the last decade. This is the case with whatever news regarding such issues appears. Monica Anderson, a senior researcher and co-author of the report said that people say that they are concerned about their privacy online but very few of them have actually done anything to make themselves more secure. 59% said they can leave these sites anytime without much hassle. Around 72% think that political views are censored by the giant tech firms if they disagree with it. 6 out of 10 people were of the view that they would prefer to be more secure online. Pew conducted other surveys as well according to which Americans were concerned about their data security, censorship issues and spread of fake news. While, Snapchat this year preferred by 24% users, WhatsApp with 20% and Reddit is visited by 11% of them.
In 20, YouTube has been the most popular among all other social media platforms, with 73% users from America. Whereas Instagram users have increased in the last few years, from 32% to 37%. The survey revealed that almost 69% of the US adults are still Facebook users ( despite trust issues), 28% use Pinterest and Twitter has 22% US adult users. The number of adult users from America on various platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest has been almost the same since 2016, according to the report.
The recent scandals regarding misinformation, privacy, and other questionable data practices have not much affected the use of social media among Americans, revealed a recent Pew Research report.
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