Introduction
I am trying to find out what apps the young people in Finland use the most. I think it might be some kind of a social media app like Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, or Spotify. They chat and send pictures of everything every day. For that the most logical app to use is Snapchat. It’s simple and easy to use. Instagram is used to share photos and videos to followers, and watching entertaining videos. YouTube is loaded with videos from different content tcreators that people subscribe to. Spotify is mainly for music and podcasts.
Apps on smartphones are programs that can be installed on you phone and you can do different things on the apps. You can communicate with people and entertain yourself. Social media is where people around the world post texts, photos, videos, texts, etc. People can communicate with each other by calls, messages, voice messages, emails, photos, videos, and commentsand. And there are many other methods too.
My hypothesis is that the most used app is TikTok because for young people, there is not an app as interesting as TikTok.
Background
Even though Snapchat is the most popular platform to communicate with friends and family, TikTok might still be the most used app on young people’s smart phones. Some people might use Snapchat more than others.
Material
I’ve ran a survey to my classmates and I received 3 responses. I asked what’s the most used app on their smart phones and how much time they’ve spent on that app. Two of the respondents said that their most used app on phone is TikTok and their weekly averages on that app were at around 20 hours per week which means almost 3 hours every single day.
Results
I searched for some research on this topic online. There is not very much research on this topic but I still could find something. Most of the researched are a bit outdated. I found one article from Yle. Kantar is a research company that has ran a survey and they received 954 responses from young people in Finland. More than a half of the respondents said that they watch the news on TikTok. Newspapers and digital newspapers are on the second place and television is on third. This research was made in 2025
In 2022 a research was conducted that says that WhatsApp is the most popular social media app. It’s understandable. But I know that those people don’t actually use WhatsApp so much. The app is just running on the phone, but the user does something else. The only exception is when there’s an intense chat going in the app.
Conclusion
The results matched to my hypothesis almost perfectly. Young people do use TikTok the most but the results are not the same in all apps. However, every research shows that TikTok is still one of the most used apps on young people’s smartphones. But in the most cases the most used app is some kind of an entertainment app like YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, or Discord. I don’t count Spotify and Netflix as social media platforms since the main function of the app is not to let people communicate with each other.
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