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Too often when writing about what teenagers like, we neglect to talk to the most important group of all: teens. So we decided to put together a State of the Union on the American teenager. To learn what American teenagers in 2. US. We spoke with teens ages 1. We asked them about their digital lives and habits, the apps they use and the games they play, pop culture, and politics.

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Their answers offer a glimpse into what it's like being a teenager in 2. We've drawn out the highlights below, along with some data from other sources, so keep scrolling for our guide to teenagers in 2. Who did we talk to?

For our survey on American teenagers, we talked to a group of about 6. US, of various socioeconomic classes, grades, and ages.

We didn't want to focus on one particular geographic area, so we talked to teenagers from across the country, including California, Colorado, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania. Every teen we spoke with owned a smartphone, and most owned or regularly used a variety of devices, like gaming consoles, tablets, and desktop computers. Teens get their first smartphone when they're 1. On average, the teens we spoke with received smartphones from their parents when they were 1. At their youngest, they received phones when they were 8; at the other end, one teen's parents made her wait until she was 1. Teens are shy to talk about how much time they spend on their phones, but it's a lot.

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We got lots of "too many" and "I'm embarrassed to say" responses, but the numbers we were able to get suggested teens spend about six hours a day on their phones. (This is both in and out of school.)And they're spending lots of time in front of other screens, too. Besides owning smartphones, most teens we talked to spent time in front of television sets and gaming consoles (Play. Station 4 and Wii were popular answers) as well.

Some also used desktop computers. On average, they said they spent 1. The most popular by a landslide: Snapchat. It's no surprise that teenagers love Snapchat. Here's what they had to say about it: "It's how I communicate with most of my friends and it's fun." — 1. Snapchat because it's pretty much just texting, but with pictures of my beautiful face " — 1. Snapchat, because it is fun to send your friends what you're doing, and where you are in a fast and easy way.

I also like being able to make stories, for all of my friends to see, and I also enjoy seeing stories of my friends on it and see what they're up to." — 1. Spotify was almost universally heralded as the best music app, and it was also listed as a favorite app by a lot of respondents. Teenagers almost universally named Spotify as their preferred music- streaming service — and some teenagers said it was the best app on their phone overall: "I use it to share music, to see what my friends are listening to, and to find new music." — 1. Instagram was another favorite. Instagram is a standby favorite of teens, who swear by its filters and direct- message feature.

Here's what they said: "I use Instagram to message my friends funny pictures I see on Instagram." — 1. Snapchat and Instagram, I love sharing photos all of the things I do and places I go. I also like seeing what others are up to." — 1. Absent from the list: Facebook. The teens we talked to said they and their friends were still using Facebook — but it wasn't their favorite app. Here's why: "I use Facebook, but I feel like I can't be myself on it because my parents and my friends' parents are my Facebook friends." — 1. It's mostly outdated." — 1. Watch Walter Online Metacritic.

Facebook is good for group events and things but it's definitely not my favorite app." — 1. This pretty much lines up with what teens across the board are saying. Instagram leads as the "most important" social network among US teens, according to the 2. Piper Jaffray's teen survey, as reported by BI Intelligence. Most of the teens we talked to wouldn't acknowledge having fake Instagram ("finsta") accounts. For the uninitiated, a finsta is a portmanteau of the words "fake" and "Instagram." You use it for posting embarrassing or less aesthetically pleasing pictures you wouldn't want to share with all of your friends. Eighty percent of the teens we talked to had no idea what a finsta was, and 9.

I did have a finsta with a friend, but we don't use it anymore because it got too confusing to know which account you were on, to make sure we were posting on the right one, and not posting on the wrong one by accident," one 1. A lot of my friends still have them and use them. A finsta is a fake Instagram account people use to post funny pictures they wouldn't normally post for everyone to see. Usually on a finsta you only have your closer friends follow, so you can post embarrassing pictures of yourself without having everyone you've ever talked to see them."Facebook may be dead to teens, but a surprising number of them are texting their friends through Facebook Messenger. The most common form of messaging among teenagers in our survey was i. Message or SMS messaging (1. But Facebook Messenger was mentioned almost as frequently — 8.

Facebook Messenger as a primary or secondary form of communicating with friends. Less popular were Whats. App, Kik, and Snapchat text. Overwhelmingly, three phones are most popular with the teenagers we talked to: the i. Phone 5. S, the i.

Phone 6, and the Samsung Galaxy S5. Eighty percent of the teenagers we talked to had one of these three phones. Teenagers are watching both cable and streaming services like Netflix — but there's one clear winner. And that's Netflix. Hulu and Amazon were also listed by a lot of the teens we spoke with, but Netflix had the lion's share. Here's why, in the words of a couple of the teenagers we spoke with: "My family has cable and Netflix and Hulu, but for me all I watch is Netflix.

I know my parents will watch the news and sometimes a show on cable, but they also mostly use Netflix or Hulu to watch shows and movies. I use Netflix more then Hulu because there aren't commercials on Netflix. I only use Hulu when I miss an episode of a show because it will be on there fast." — 1. Netflix is life." — 1.

Here's what teens are watching on TV (it's mostly Netflix and Netflix- like services). Over one- half of US children and teenagers ages 8 to 1.

Pw. C surveypreferred streaming television to all other types of media. We asked teens to identify the coolest app, website, or thing on the internet that adults probably didn't know about. We got a fair number of responses from teens who thought Twitter, Tumblr, and Snapchat were cool (and they are!) and that adults didn't know about them (but they do!). But we found a few responses genuinely surprising. After School. Several teens brought this app to our attention. We first wrote about After School, a social network created specifically for high- school students, when it launched and started gaining traction in late 2. If you're nervous thinking about the kinds of stuff teenagers would post anonymously on a social network, you're not alone. Millions of teens are using it to post their "deepest anxieties, secret crushes, vulgar assessments of their classmates, and even violent threats," according to The Washington Post. Watch The Gift 4Shared here.

Musical. ly. You've probably never heard of Musical. Apple's App Store. The app has quietly grown to its popular status without any press. Musical. ly lets you make music videos of yourself or of other people. It may not seem like a particularly compelling value proposition, but 1. Musical. ly as the app they were most excited about and doubted adults would know about.

Color Therapy. Remember when you were a kid and you colored in coloring books? Color Therapy is a stress- relieving, digital coloring book for adults, and the teens we talked to swore by it. Wishbone. Launched by the Los Angeles venture- capital firm Science's mobile studio, Wishbone shows you two options and lets you vote on which one you like more — a spin on the popular "Would you rather?" hypothetical question.

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