Do you remember when teens left MySpace to join Facebook?  Shortly after, adults also joined Facebook.  Even though adults didn’t really join MySpace, they joined Facebook by the hundreds of millions.  This resulted in the Facebook platform not being as popular for teens.  So what social media platforms are teens joining now, and what can we learn from this?

In a recent study conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, although 94 percent of American teens have a Facebook account, they use it less and they use it more carefully.  Over half of teens have updated their privacy settings, and regularly edit or delete previous posts.

Even though they’ve updated their privacy settings, teens feel that Facebook is more like a family picnic than a private party.  While they still share photos and use Facebook messaging, they’ve turned to newer social networks to post their status updates.  These are the sites they’re using and why they’re using them: