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Instagram has a new program for school officials to report bullying

Engadget

This time, however, Meta is enlisting school officials directly in an effort to speed up its response to safety issues affecting young teens. But while these features can help teens avoid certain types of negative interactions, they still required teens (or their parents) to tweak their settings.

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Square is letting the teens use Cash App

The Verge

Teens won’t be able to do just anything with Cash App, though — they won’t have access to the investing or Bitcoin features, despite Jack Dorsey’s passion for crypto , and Square says they won’t be able to deposit checks. Still, Cash App’s popularity (especially on Twitter, also founded by Jack Dorsey) could help make it the choice for teens.

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The Nonprofit’s Guide to TikTok

Nonprofit Tech for Good

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. About the Author. Users with under 1,000 followers have an average engagement rate of 51.1%. TikTok has the highest social media engagement rate per post. The majority of U.S. Are you inspired to get started?

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Creating The Village It Takes To Do Coalition Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin’s TED talk about creating a national Crisis Text Line for teens, I knew I wanted to be a part of this effort to reach teens using the medium they now love most – SMS. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. Get together in person.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to Jonah Berger , the author of a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science , arousing emotions are more likely than non-arousing emotions to spur engagement and social sharing. Watch what this group of teens did for their community. Join us in telling him this is unacceptable! We have to stop this!

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Bookshare Volunteers Are the Best!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With the addition of the book "Bright Wampum" to the collection today (September 7th), Bookshare is one of the few (if not the only) libraries in the world to have copies of all of Dorothy Lyons' novels for teens. These novels were mostly published in only one edition during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and are highly collectible.

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TikTok parent ByteDance adds time limit for kids under 14 on its video app in China

The Verge

Teens under 14 will be able to access Douyin between 6AM and 10PM, but won’t be able to use the app outside of that window, the company said. The app’s youth mode keeps it in line with the Chinese government’s new restrictions on access to video games for younger children.

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