Instagram, Snapchat Provide Boost to Photo, Video Apps

Internet users are sharing more photos and videos online than ever before thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and apps like Instagram and Snapchat, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.

The telephone survey of 1,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, taken over three days in October, found that 54 percent of adult Internet users post original photos or videos online and 47 percent share multi-media they found elsewhere on the Web. Together, 62 percent of Internet users have done at least one of these creating or curating activities, up significantly from the 56 percent who did so in 2012. Some 40 percent now create and curate photos and videos on the Web.

Meanwhile, 92 percent of Americans own a cell phone and 58 percent own a smartphone, the survey found.

Nine percent of cell phone owners use the self-destructing photo message app Snapchat, while 18 percent use Facebook's recently acquired Instagram photo- and video-sharing app. This is the first time Pew has asked cell owners about Snapchat and Instagram.

'Pictures document life from a special angle, whether they relate to small moments, personal milestones, or larger news and events,' report author Maeve Duggan said in a statement. 'Mobile connectivity has brought these visuals into countless lives in real-time. This all adds up to a new kind of collective digital scrapbook with fresh forms of storytelling and social bonding.'

Women and young people are especially likely to share photos and videos online, the survey found. Some 59 percent of online women share original multi-media content while 81 percent of Internet users ages 18 to 29 do the same.

'A lot of photo- and video-sharing is happening on social media, where women are historically more likely to be users,' Duggan said. 'In terms of mobile, young people have always been early and eager adopters of new apps and platforms for sharing. These platforms enable new expressions of a very traditional human impulse to capture and share moments from our lives.'

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