Yesterday I spoke at the Iowa High School Press Association fall conference in Iowa City on the topic of building a social media strategy.

But first I devoured these wings at The Vine.

As students walked into the classroom, I had each student fill out a quick two-question survey. The questions:

  • What one social network is the most important to you?
  • What social networks do you think you will be using in two years?

I gave them these options:

  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Snapchat
  • tumblr
  • Vine
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • foursquare/Swarm
  • Other__________

The results show that social media among teens is still a four-way race between Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. And Pinterest isn’t out of the running.

But if students were forced to pick one, it was either Twitter or Instagram.

Here are the results (there were 27 total responses).

What one social network is the most important to you?

Network Responses
Twitter 10
Instagram 7
Snapchat 3
Facebook 2
Pinterest 2
tumblr 2
Skype 1

 
What social networks do you think you will be using in two years?

Network Responses
Instagram 22
Facebook 19
Snapchat 19
Twitter 19
Pinterest 13
tymblr 10
Vine 9
Google+ 5
Skype 1