More Teens Are on Tumblr than Facebook or Instagram, Survey Finds

Facebook is starting to show its age, according to a recent survey of younger social media users. The shocker? Tumblr was the most popular network, beating out not only Facebook, but also its newly acquired image-sharing site, Instagram.

Facebook is starting to show its age, according to a recent survey of younger social media users. The shocker? Tumblr was the most popular network, beating out not only Facebook, but also its newly acquired image-sharing site, Instagram.

Posterous co-founder Gary Tan surveyed two groups of young people ages 13 to 18 and 19 to 25 to find out which social networks they preferred.

Out of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat, it was Tumblr, the blogging site best known for single-subject blogs and animated GIFs, that dominated the space with 61 percent of teenagers and 57 percent of young adults.

Facebook, by comparison, drew in 55 percent of the 13-to-18-year-old and 52 percent of the 19-to-25-year-old audiences.

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