I keep noticing that everyone younger than me seems to use instagram or snapchat to communicate with others, whereas everyone my age and above seems to communicate via fb messenger. My year level seems to feel like the exact cut off for the last age group before instagram takes over as the 'important' way of staying in touch with friends.
I pretty much only got snapchat to talk to a couple of friends from the year level below. And I rarely use instagram DMs unless I'm talking to younger friends. Everyone my age and older I talk to via messenger.
Another thing that supported my theory was that I went to a uni thing for psych students, and was talking to some first years who went straight to Instagram when they brought up connecting on social media, and said they don't really use fb/messenger except for when they have to for uni stuff etc. Whereas others I've connected with on social media from uni in my year level+ go straight to bringing up Facebook.
There are a lot of exceptions obviously, but I definitely feel like at some point around people in the age group a little below mine, instagram overtakes facebook messenger in popularity by a large amount. Especially by my brothers year level (a few years younger), it seems like they only seem to use instagram DMs to communicate (instead of fb messenger).
Do you guys think there's a reason for this, or is it just kind of what's happened?
Is there anyone who feels like my experience of different social medias for different age groups is different to their experience/thoughts on this?
(Edit: added linkedin & discord to poll because of replies :) )