The bar chart illustrates the average time spent on social media—Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat—between 2000 and 2020, measured in minutes.
Overall, users spent less time on Facebook than on others, spending more time on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat during the period.
Looking closer at the data, Facebook and Twitter: the former was more used at just below 25 minutes in 2016 and decreased steadily by the final year, reaching about 4 minutes in 2020. The latter began at just over 20 minutes and increased steadily throughout the period, ending at 40 minutes in 2020.
Specifically, people spent approximately 12 minutes in 2016 and the time rose significantly in 2019, peaking at just over 40 minutes before it decreased substantially to 13 minutes in 2020. On Instagram, users spent about 24 minutes in 2016 and the time rose considerably to 40 minutes in 2017 before dropping to about 30 and 15 minutes in 2018 and 2019. Afterwards, it reached around 35 minutes by the final year (2020).
