Beginning of the end of #purge, revenge porn or social cruelty?
We so want to believe it: that the fact that Twitter and Instagram are actively taking down #purge-related accounts signals “the tipping point of this particular phenomenon – and its end has begun,” as...
View ArticleMillennials’ changing social media use: Survey
It’s hard to believe the high end of the Millennials age bracket is over 30 already! The Pew Research Center’s definition says they’re all adults, putting their age range at 18-33 (check out Pew’s 6...
View ArticleHow teens’ social media use changing: New Pew study
Parents of teens probably knew this already, but the Pew Research Center just confirmed it for everybody: YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are US 13-17 year-olds’ top social media picks now – at 85%,...
View ArticleMillennials’ top 10 apps at the turn of the year
Youth digital research firm YPULSE’s “most clicked article of 2015” didn’t hold a lot of surprises, but it might be useful to note teens’ and millennials’ top picks here at the turn of the year....
View ArticleMusical.ly inclined: App huge with younger users
Musical.ly just may’ve replaced Instagram as kids’ starter app. This is an educated guess. I remember a few years ago my friend Trudy Ludwig, the award-winning children’s author, observing that, based...
View ArticleDigital wellness: What is, & isn’t, parody
“Social media seriously harms your mental health” goes the message on the back of smartphones ironically held in the perfectly manicured hands of super models and other social media influencers, two of...
View ArticleCountering ‘hate raids’ needs to be coordinated too
The “hate raids” on Twitch spotlight an important online safety reality: It’s increasingly a cross-platform effort. Hate raids, or hate spam, is harassment on steroids and, as the Washington Post...
View ArticleOnline safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see
What a year it has been for child online safety, right?! There was the adoption of General Comment 25, bringing all things digital into the global Convention on the Rights of the Child; the draft...
View ArticleThe latest on US teens’ social media use
The fresh figures on US teens’ top digital media picks from the Pew Research Center can be a great conversation starter for parents. I mean, we can ask our kids if they’re surprised that YouTube is No....
View ArticleNew global service for getting nudes off the Internet
TakeItDown, a new service to help teens get nudes and other sexting images taken down from the Internet anonymously – powered by NCMEC, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The post...
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