Snapchat is irrelevant to the point that I don’t even know why I’m mentioning it,” Cori Amato Hartwig, a New York-based 22-year-old who runs an account called tells The Verge. Tumblr is for people stuck in 2011 and Warped Tour (sorry). Instead, Instagram - still hugely popular as a place to post glossy, aspirational images of your vacation, your coffee, or gratuitous selfies - has grown into a home away from home to consume screenshots of the best content from those services. But that doesn’t mean that younger users are finished with the content from those sites altogether. Pew Research Center recently reported that fewer teenagers than ever are using platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr. As social media platforms grow more popular, younger audiences tend to flee in search of newer alternatives.
