Mark Zuckerberg Is Blowing Up Instagram To Try And Catch TikTok
The CEO of Meta Platforms needs Reels—his short-form video feature—to fund his metaverse, and you can smell his desperation from Beijing. Read the article here.
The CEO of Meta Platforms needs Reels—his short-form video feature—to fund his metaverse, and you can smell his desperation from Beijing. Read the article here.
Young people are learning how online content is wreaking havoc on their self esteem, and making it their mission to help other young people avoid the same fate. Read the article here.
The significant shift in how consumers engage with video content has forever altered TV viewing, and the groundswell of over-the-top (OTT) platforms and content now provides more choice than consumers can keep track of. Access the report here.
Since most parents don’t know that porn can be accessed this way, they aren’t checking for (or blocking) porn on an Apple Watch. Read the article here.
TikTok’s influential algorithm has the power to elevate talent from obscurity or low-level fame, and take older music to the top of the streaming charts. Read the article here.
The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. Visit the website here.
Many kids have a smartphone by age 12, and some even younger. Read the article here.
Emojis are an easy, popular way to share emotions in picture form via text message or on social media, but some seemingly innocent emojis are actually code for drugs! Read the article here.
Two Augusta teens are making headlines by doing something kids used to do all the time: going outside. Read the article here.
The social media platform has become the psychiatrist’s couch for Gen Z. Read the article here.
US mobile gaming ad revenues will reach $6.26 billion in 2022, up 14.0% from $5.49 billion in 2021. Read the article here.
Does a parent’s posting habits on Facebook really change the way they interact with their kids? Read the article here.
Parents, make sure your kids understand that a TikTok video is not authoritative, even it has 10 million likes. Read the blog post from Leonard Sax here.
Generally, the metaverse is a future combination of several technologies that make the internet more immersive. Defend Young Minds discusses possible concerns. You can read them here.
Facebook parent company Meta is doing everything in its power to get teens to love its myriad services, but a new survey shows the social networking giant is losing to viral short-video platform TikTok. Read the article here.
Investigators say that predators are seeking out teenage boys online and posing as girls their age. Read the article here.
Researchers are trying to figure out who’s at risk. Read the article here.
Launched in 2015, Discord is less well-known among parents than big names like Instagram, even as it surged to 150 million monthly active users globally during the pandemic. Read the article here.
The trend encourages people to use airsoft guns to shoot the small gel beads at people nearby. Read the article here.
Is all that time spent on social media, gaming apps, and streaming services turning kids’ brains into mush? Read the article here.
Instagram on Wednesday morning launched a “Family Center” with supervisory tools for parents to track their children’s time and activity on the platform. Read the article here.
Despite repeated warnings that Facebook Marketplace allows the sale of recalled products that have killed children, the platform’s parent company, Meta, has still failed to prevent such items from being available on its site. Read the article here.
Teens may have sexted more during the pandemic, and the fallout can be intense. Read the article here.
Unlike many other current popular social media platforms, Discord servers often function as closed communities, with invitations required to join. Read the article here.
Playboy is once again trying to clean up its image and, in the process, contradict its own reasons for existence. Read the article here.
Around the world, doctors have noticed teenage patients reporting the sudden onset of tics. Is this the first illness spread by social media? Read the article here.
A review of the book Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age. Read the article/review here.
A social media diet of perfect bodies is spurring some teenage boys to form muscle dysmorphia. Read the article here.
Researchers found only a minority of children worldwide are meeting the recommended hours of screen time. Read the article here.
How could the older and wiser ignore the dangers of adolescents’ reading fewer books and logging more screen hours? Read the article here.
1 in 8 suffer anxiety from low battery. Read the article here.
Proportion of 15 and 16-year-olds feeling alienated has tripled in twenty years. Read the article here.
Their daughter’s online venture plunged a Florida family into a nightmare, but they decided not to pull the plug. Read the article here.
According to a study by The National Institutes of Health, the proportion of young people in the U.S. between the ages of 13 and 17 years who own a smartphone is 89%, more than double the amount just six years ago. Read the article here.
Young media consumers continue to spend more time with online video, gaming and social media, and less time with traditional screen-based TV series and movies, according to a new study from Hub Entertainment Research. Read the article here.
An Australian restaurant came up with a solution for keeping kids off their phones, but it unveils a bigger problem. Read the article here.
Girls are often anxious and overwhelmed by the attention they get after posting suggestive videos; therapists say more are suffering emotionally. Read the article here.
How to help teens have safe and healthy online relationships. Read the article here.
Here’s how parents can mitigate it. Read the article here.
As the Omicron variant surges and U.S. schools deal with a substitute teacher shortage and related pandemic fallout, don’t be surprised if a return to remote or hybrid learning leads your kids to act out, a new study warns. Read the article here.
This article is part of a series of articles from Teen Vogue exploring how social media impacts mental health. Read the article here.
A study among teenage TikTok users found that those who showed addictive tendencies toward the platform performed worse when recalling number sequences. Read the article here.
Kristen Jenson of Defend Young Minds interviews Dr. Mateusz Gola about problematic pornography use and the latest neuroscience of addiction. Access the interview here.
From a total viewing perspective, streaming was the clear outlier during the week of Christmas, as Americans watched a total of 183 billion minutes – an all-time high – across the growing range of over-the-top platforms. Read the article here.
Mobile app gaming has managed to hold on to its pandemic-driven success and then some, reversing our previous predictions that time spent gaming with mobile apps would decline in the US after 2020. Read the report here.
It turns out, having that prestigious blue texting bubble is enough for teenagers to stay away from non-Apple devices. Read the article here.
Here’s what sports marketers are doing to win back a lost generation and save the future of fandom. Read the article here.
Has peer pressure and bullying given an edge to iMessage users? Read the article here.
A December iPhone update gives parents a new tool to protect children online. Read the article here.
In 2021, the app’s biggest stars — Charli and Dixie D’Amelio, Noah Beck, Addison Rae and others — leapt from the phone screen to other platforms in the pop culture universe, with mixed results. Read the article here.
Eating disorders among teenagers have been linked more recently to TikTok, as users post content daily consisting of what they eat in a day or the methods they use to lose weight, especially within the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article here.
The porn industry is powerful, but kids can learn skills to reject pornography and defend themselves against it. Read the article here.
Kids were already drifting away from traditional sports before the pandemic, with ramifications for the entire sports industry. The trend has accelerated in the pandemic. Read the article here.
The “Bad Guy” singer said violent sex videos warped her perspective on healthy relationships. Read the article here.
What do teen girls wish grown-ups (particularly their parents) really knew about Instagram? And what advice do they have for kids just starting out on the app? Read the article here.
Parents who did not spend their childhoods with social media apps are now struggling to understand and navigate the potential harms that social media can have on their kids’ mental health as they grow up. Read the article here.
As 2021 closes, it appears we’re not planning on putting the controller down. Read the article here.
Slang for fake Instagram accounts, finstas were the first place teens would post photos they didn’t want to share on main. Read the article here.
Instagram is rolling out a new set of safety features aimed at its youngest users and their parents, a day before the photo-sharing app’s head testifies to Congress about the platform’s potential risks to kids and teens. Read the article here.
Fake accounts for minors were able to connect with drug dealers. Read the article here.
Ff we adults are seemingly powerless in the face of such digital temptation, where does that leave our kids? Read the article here.
A New York Times columnist obtained an internal company document that offers a new level of detail about how the algorithm works. Read the article here.
The social networks with the most monthly Gen Z users are Snapchat (42.0 million), TikTok (37.3 million), and Instagram (33.3 million). Read the article here.
Esports is set to grow into a $1.62 billion industry by 2024. Read the article here.
Twice as many children between the ages of 9 and 12 reported sending nudes or other Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (SG-CSAM) in 2020 than in 2019. Read the research here.
The preponderance of the evidence suggests that social media is causing real damage to adolescents. Read the article here.
Should they be using these services at all? Read the article here.
Defend Young Minds provides some tips on making YouTube safer. Read the article here.
Authorities were able to find a missing 16-year-old girl after she caught the attention of a driver by using hand gestures popularized on the social media platform TikTok. Read the article here.
A new study published in Computers in Human Behavior found that using Instagram or Snapchat before age 11 was significantly related to more problematic digital behaviors compared to those who joined these platforms when they were older. Read the article here.
Electronic dating violence—including electronic harassment, coercion and monitoring—starts increasing in preadolescence but curves as teens reach young adulthood, according to a new University of Michigan study. Read the article here.
Use safety settings as a jumping-off point to talk about what helps your teen feel safe on the Internet. Read the article here.
New research shows that texting is the best method of communication to reach college students. So what stops more schools from using it? Read the article here.
Back in 2012, 94% of teens had a Facebook account, a Pew Research survey of 12- to 17-year-olds found. Almost 10 years later, only 27% of adolescents say they’re on the platform, according to a 2021 survey of 10,000 teenagers conducted by Piper Sandler. Read the article here.
Researchers have uncovered a link between depression and problematic internet use (PIU) among teens. Read the article here.
YouTube videos are the most popular medium among US children online, with 85% of those surveyed watching that content recently. Read the article here.
Researchers discovered that kids who exercised more and used technology less during the pandemic had better mental health outcomes. Read the article here.
Google introduced a tool Wednesday to give minors more control of self-images that appear in search queries, allowing those under 18 to request removal. Read the article here.
A new study finds a third of children between seven and nine years-old are already using social media apps. Read the article here.
The app, hailed as Facebook’s growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents. Read the article here.
Now, a new study reveals the switch to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic has made earning a college degree even harder. Read the article here.
It’s not just your teens who are on social media anymore. Younger kids are getting on those apps, and some parents aren’t confident that their children can stay safe online. Read the article here.
When teens started turning up in doctors’ offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media: The girls had been watching Tourette syndrome TikTok videos. Read the article here.
Although the platform bans content promoting dangerous weight loss, hashtags such as #skinnycheck can still be found. Read the article here.
Snapchat is the favorite social media platform among teenagers in the United States and is still growing in popularity, while Facebook’s usage is minimal among teens. Read the article here.
The majority of US parents (51%) reported giving their children 3 hours or more of daily screen time for anything other than homework. Read the article here.
Mothers describe their daughters’ dangerous experiences after whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony. Read the article here.
Roblox is popular with kids all over the world. It currently hosts 142 million users and it’s been estimated that half of kids in the U.S. under 16 have played Roblox. Sadly it’s easy for predators and bad actors to infect the Roblox platform with sexual content. Read the article here.
In Facebook’s own internal research, one-third of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse. Read the article here.
Proof that Instagram is not only failing to crack down on accounts promoting extreme dieting and eating disorders, but actively promotes those accounts, comes as Instagram and its parent company Facebook are facing intense scrutiny over the impact they have on young people’s mental health. Read the article here.
The researchers also found that two years after Internet usage was monitored on the laptops, the participants who had viewed more pornography were more likely to be engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Additionally, those who had spent more time on social media were more likely to experience cyberbullying two years later. Read the article here.
Today, peer pressure is at an all-time high, and it’s a different ballgame. Read the blog post from Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders here.
For kids, developing a healthier relationship with Instagram and other platforms can be tricky. Read the article here.
More than one billion people around the world now use TikTok, according to an announcement Monday from the app. Read the article here.
The claims are in response to a damning Wall Street Journal story that prompted a Senate hearing. Read the article here.