Younger generations are abandoning Facebook.

Listen up credit union CEOs, your next generation of members —- teenagers — have replaced Facebook and Twitter with Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram as the social media platforms they use most often, according to new research released Thursday by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.

Thirteen-to-17-year-olds, the youngest cohort of Generation Z, and their parents surveyed by Pew Research in March and April found that the top social media platform is YouTube used by 85% of teens, followed by Instagram (72%), Snapchat (69%), Facebook (51%) and Twitter (32%).

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