None of those stats mean they trust the platforms though. Just that they consider them to be an indispensable part of life.
Which is revealing in itself! But when I think back to my first days using Facebook the thought never occurred to me that I couldn’t trust them. Naïveté in my part for sure but I think it’s notable that todays young folks have wised up.
To be fair, the mid 00's was the transition time from the open web to the platform times we live in now. There was no immediate reason to distrust a social media site based on the social media sites that had come before it. After all, you were just writing inside jokes on each other's wall at the time, before News Feed.
I think your perspective may have been different if you grew up seeing it weaponized and your data constantly being stolen
Which is revealing in itself! But when I think back to my first days using Facebook the thought never occurred to me that I couldn’t trust them. Naïveté in my part for sure but I think it’s notable that todays young folks have wised up.