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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Facebook and especially YouTube are still the most popular social media platform in the US in 2021; however, Facebook is no longer growing. Read on for more details.</strong></em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">According to a recent report titled Social Media Use in 2021 from Pew Research Center, YouTube is currently the most widely used social media platform, which is used by 81% of people in the US. The giant video-sharing platform is followed by Facebook with 69%. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><img alt="bandwidth hogging" src="https://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/news/youtube-is-the-most-popular-social-media-platform-in-the-us-this-year-1.png" style="display:block; height:360px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:640px"></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><em>YouTube is the most popular social media platform in the US 2021</em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Though they are the two most popular platforms, only YouTube still sees growth, raising its share of users from 73% in 2019 to 81% in 2021. On the other hand, Facebook's share of users in the US keeps unchanged since 2019 at 69%. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">After YouTube and Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn take the third, fourth, and fifth spots with 40%, 31%, and 28% of people using the services, respectively. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Sharing 25% popularity, Twitter, Snapchat, and WhatsApp are also among the most used social media platforms in the US. The report also revealed that 21% of people in the US use TikTok, and 13% use Nextdoor - a neighborhood-focused platform. </p>

<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify" id="tag-13"><strong>Only YouTube and Reddit saw significant growth</strong></h2>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">In terms of growth, besides YouTube, Reddit is the other social media platform that experienced significant growth - up from 11% in 2019 to 18% in 2021. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><img alt="bandwidth hogging" src="https://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/news/youtube-is-the-most-popular-social-media-platform-in-the-us-this-year-2.png" style="display:block; height:360px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:640px"></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><em>Reddit also experienced big growth </em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Though growth has generally slowed down, social media users in the US seem to not be less addicted to these platforms. 49% of Facebook users in the country say they visit the service multiple times per day, while 45% of Snapchat users check the app more than one time per day, as do 38% of Instagram users. For the giant video-sharing platform - YouTube, just more than one-third of its users report visiting it more than once a day.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">See also: <a href="https://gospeedcheck.com/article/bandwidth-hogging-208" target="_blank">Bandwidth hogging: Top things eating up a lot of internet bandwidth</a></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:right"><em>Sources:</em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:right"><em>engadget.com/pew-2021-social-media-report-youtube-facebook-162254196.html</em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:right"><em>news18.com/news/tech/youtube-is-the-most-popular-social-media-platform-right-now-followed-by-facebook-instagram-3619838.html</em></p>
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