MBO students are more often online
The majority of young people are only active on social media for 1 to 3 hours a day. Age makes no difference in the amount of time young people spend on social media. Except for 15 and 16 year olds. They are online longer, an average of 5 hours a day.
Social media are also much more popular with girls than boys. Girls (22%) spend an average of 3 to 5 hours a day on social media. For boys, this is 17 percent. In addition, 11 percent of girls indicate that they spend more than 5 hours a day online on social media. And that compared to 4 percent of boys. The level of education also has a major influence on online media use. For example, it appears that MBO students spend 5 hours or more on social media every day 2.5 times as often as university students.
What is the main reason for young people to use social media? Simply because they like it (97%), want to connect with others (92.4%) or out of boredom (80%). The fact that they don't want to miss out on information ( fear of missing out , also known as FOMO) is a reason for 49.8 percent to use social media. How does that last one heavy construction contractors email list work exactly?
21 percent of girls indicate that they are often afraid of missing out on things if they are not online. They cannot live without WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram.
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Age plays an important role when it comes to missing out on things on social media. It turns out that 12 to 18 year olds find it much more annoying when they can't be online than 18 to 25 year olds. Girls also suffer from this more than boys. 21 percent of girls indicate that they are often afraid of missing out on things when they are not online. They cannot live without WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram.
An explanation for this can be found in the function of social media for boys and girls. Girls mainly use social media to keep in touch with girlfriends. For boys, the emphasis is on entertainment, watching YouTube videos. This FOMO effect can also be seen in education level. For example, it appears that low and medium educated young people have more problems with this than higher educated people.