B
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25%
25% -- decline in social platform use for friendship and self expression for global social media users (2024)
The number of people reporting using social platforms to stay in touch with friends and express themselves fell by more than 25 percent between 2014 and 2024.
- The source states the decline is 'more than 25 per cent' since 2014
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Value
25%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
Entity
Sample Size
250,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Financial Times
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Tier B
https://www.begiant.ca/stories/ideas/canada-digital-sovereignty-gander-social ↗
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The case for Canadian digital sovereignty
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Financial Times
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global social media users: 25% decline in social platform use for friendship and self expression. Source: Financial Times (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-platform-use-decline-since-2014
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-platform-use-decline-since-2014" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>25%</strong> -- decline in social platform use for friendship and self expression for global social media users<br><small>Source: Financial Times (2024) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-platform-use-decline-since-2014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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