A data tool for serious questions about social media and technology.
Strata lets researchers, policymakers, lawyers, journalists, and curious people explore findings from a six-wave longitudinal survey of U.S. adults conducted between 2023 and 2025.
Before you dig in
- Pick a question from Start here, or jump to an explorer in the nav.
- Charts are interactive — hover any point for its exact value, confidence interval, and sample size, and download any chart or its data.
- Read the What the numbers mean column for plain-language context. Every chart shows its n and methodology footnote.
- I flag technical terms with a dotted underline. Hover for a quick explanation, or open the glossary for longer ones with examples.
Start here
Five places to start digging into the data.
What platforms are most popular?
See how many U.S. adults use each platform and how that has shifted across six waves, 2023–2025.
Where do people have negative experiences?
Compare how often users report a recent negative experience on each platform.
How do platform users feel about their wellbeing?
Track life satisfaction, loneliness, and related measures over time.
How do these measures move together?
Explore the correlations between wellbeing, political, and social-media measures in an interactive matrix.
How does one platform’s experience compare to another’s?
Open a single platform’s report card — who uses it, what they experience, and how its users feel.
Or use the navigation above to explore trends over time, platform comparisons, demographic splits on trends, and correlations.