2026-05-18
by Snapchat has slipped into one of the world's most popular social media platforms used by teens. Pew Research Center's 2024 report finds that 55% of American teenagers are active Snapchat users. Users open the app 30-40 times a day and spend an average of 30 minutes engaged with it each day. In the U.S. alone, Snapchat has 90% of 13- to 24-year-olds as users. This makes it a part of the teen culture. This article aims to support parents in better understanding the "teens and Snapchat" phenomenon. We explore what teens use Snapchat for, safe for teens, the dangers that…





