YouTube overtakes Facebook as teens' favourite site: Survey

[mmadhankumar]

YouTube is overtaking Facebook as the most favourite site among teenagers, a survey has found.

The Futures Company, a research consultancy, interviewed 4,014 teens and found that the most popular site among young people was YouTube.

Nearly 50% of teens cited YouTube as their favorite site versus 45.2% who favoured Facebook, Mashable reports.

Others on the list include Amazon (27.8%), Google (25%), Twitter (19.5%), Yahoo (12.1%), eBay (10.7%) and Tumblr (12.3%).

Facebook is still the most popular website with twenty somethings at 55%, followed by Amazon (37.5%).

The report shows modest growth for Twitter among the 12 to 29 group with 16.5% naming it as their favorite website vs 14.1% last year.

Facebook's overall numbers went from 57.6% to 51.7%.


http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/social-media/YouTube-overtakes-Facebook-as-teens-favourite-site-Survey/articleshow/25361016.cms