Adolescents in Spain spend more than 6 hours a day in front of the screen. Excessive time that, if not controlled, can lead to mental health problems and poor school performance. Despite this, not everything is inconvenient. These young people have been born in a completely digitalized world and find in their mobile phones an escape route to entertain themselves and connect with their friends.
While Generation X is fond of Facebook and millennials are the kings of Instagram, Generation Z have totally different interests
Curiously, the use that each person makes of these devices varies depending on the generation to which they belong. While Generation X is fond of Facebook and millennials are the kings of Instagram, Generation Z has totally different interests. How does this generation that avoids phone calls and at the same time feels attracted to “dumb phones” spend their time?
Teenagers connected to mobile phone
A study commissioned by Techcrunch from the firm Appfigures, which takes into account both Android and OiS, has made a ranking to discover which are their favorite applications. The data have been collected among young people aged 18 to 24 in the United States. For privacy reasons, adolescents between 13 and 17 years old were not able to participate in the sample. The results are surprising, since Instagram and Facebook are left off the podium.
The results of the study are surprising, since Instagram and Facebook are left off the podium
The application sweeps among generation Z according to the ranking is Temu, with 41.98 million downloads from January to October. Founded in 2022, this app mainly offers fashion products, electronics, household items, beauty products, toys and non-food items with huge discounts that are shipped to consumers in different countries directly from China.
Temu logo on a mobile phone placed in front of a screen containing an e-commerce company web page
Its direct competition, Shein, has received only 14.68 million downloads, although that does not mean that the application is not of interest, since being older, it was probably already installed on many devices.
AI has also strongly entered the mobile phones of the youngest Internet users in 2024
The second most downloaded application has been Tik Tok, which has not stopped growing since its appearance in 2018. Short videos in vertical format that slide infinitely across the screen have become the favorite pastime of this sector of the population.
Images on Tik Tok
Third place in the ranking is occupied by the Instagram Twitter, Threads, created in July 2023, with 32.32 million downloads. Further down we find WhatsApp with 28.42 million, Instagram with 26.29 million, Facebook with 20.58 million and Messenger with 17.63 million.
It should be noted that AI has also entered with force into the mobile phones of the youngest Internet users in 2024. Chat GPT has obtained 24.63 million downloads, something that worries schools and universities, which have already prohibited its use on multiple occasions. of this tool in the classrooms.
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