If you’ve spent any time on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts this year, you’ve probably felt it too: social media doesn’t feel like it did even three years ago. The way we scroll, the platforms we trust, the communities we hang out in, everything is shifting in real time. And we finally have numbers to prove it, thanks to the latest 2025 data from the Pew Research Center. The platforms we think are “dying” aren’t really dying… and the ones we think are “taking over