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Is Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­social media obsessed? Find out where it ranks in new study

Which B.C. city is the most social media obsessed in Canada?
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Here's how Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ranks in a new study of social media obsessed cities.

A new study from casino market research company  endeavours to find the most social media-obsessed city in Canada.

The ranking was made by analyzing the number of monthly Google searches for social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, etc.) across Canada over the past year. The cities were then listed in order, highest to lowest, based on the number of searches per 1,000 people.

The good news is, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­didn't make the top three. The bad news is we did make the top 10, ahead of Toronto.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ranked as the sixth most social media-obsessed city in Canada and according to our Google searches, we are most interested in YouTube which was also the most popular social media platform across the country.

The most social media-obsessed city is in B.C.--according to the study, is Victoria as number one in Canada with 5,758 searches per 1,000 people monthly. The capital appears to favour YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit, in that order.

Moncton, New Brunswick and St John’s, Newfoundland, round out second and third place. Both favour Facebook above other platforms but Moncton is one of the few cities in the top five to also feature Pinterest as a popular search.

Other cities that made the list

Another B.C. city made it into the top five--Nanaimo ranked fourth on the list with Facebook remaining the most widely-used social media platform. The same goes for number five, Peterborough in Ontario.

Interestingly, Snapchat didn't appear as a popular platform for any of the cities (though it's unlikely people who use it would be searching for it on Google). Toronto ranked 14th on the list (out of 47), so is decidedly not social media obsessed. However, the title of least social media obsessed city in Canada goes to Drummondville in Quebec.

Though White Rock, B.C. did give it a run for its money in 46th place.

The full ranking

Rank

Location

Search Volume Per 1,000 People

1

Victoria

5,758

2

Moncton

3,097

3

St. John's

2,711

4

Nanaimo

2,478

5

Peterborough

2,454

6

Vancouver

2,357

7

Thunder Bay

2,211

8

Halifax

2,121

9

Prince George

2,114

10

Windsor

2,064

11

Montreal

2,041

12

Kingston

2,008

13

Chilliwack

1,992

14

Toronto

1,982

15

Quebec City

1,982

16

Kelowna

1,958

17

Kamloops

1,916

18

Sherbrooke

1,869

19

Trois-Rivières

1,869

20

Regina

1,823

21

Belleville

1,794

22

Brantford

1,786

23

Saskatoon

1,770

24

Lethbridge

1,749

25

Barrie

1,746

26

London

1,746

27

Calgary

1,731

28

Guelph

1,728

29

Hamilton

1,724

30

Kitchener

1,722

31

Sarnia

1,720

32

Abbotsford

1,661

33

Châteauguay

1,638

34

Saint-Jérôme

1,629

35

Greater Sudbury

1,619

36

Milton

1,614

37

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

1,614

38

Winnipeg

1,583

39

Oshawa

1,531

40

Edmonton

1,527

41

Red Deer

1,506

42

Ottawa–Gatineau

1,411

43

Welland - Pelham

1,337

44

Airdrie

1,320

45

St. Catharines - Niagara Falls

1,010

46

White Rock

853

47

Drummondville

540