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Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

Futurism

I t's a platform where millions of monthly users the company has declined to say how many are children and teens, but it's clearly a dominant portion of its audience engage in immersive conversations with AI chatbots designed to act like real-life celebrities, beloved fandom characters, and original personas. is striking.

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Social Media Tools to Watch in 2014 for #NonprofitRadio

Amy Sample Ward

Continuing that conversation this time, we turned to some of the tools that your nonprofit may want to watch in 2014. Like last time, I mentioned that I’d share some blog posts and data for those that want to dive in deeper to this conversation. Here’s Where Teens are Going Instead of Facebook from Forbes.

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Facebook says Instagram is not ‘toxic for teens,’ despite damning WSJ report

The Verge

Raychoudhury ignores many of the issues raised in the WSJ piece, including that teens claimed they felt addicted to Instagram. The tiny study was “designed to inform internal conversations about teens’ most negative perceptions of Instagram,” Raychoudhury claims.

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5 Social Media Stats That’ll Help Your Nonprofit Understand Audiences

TechImpact

And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true? Twitter for many is simply a way to stay involved in greater conversations that are happening online, engage those users with photo caption, trivia, or retweet contest. 76% of Tumblr and 74% of Instagram users are teens.

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Teen banking service Step raises $50M, adds TikTok star Charli D’Amelio to investor list

TechCrunch

Step , a mobile banking service aimed at teens , announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. Step offers teens $3 (it used to be just $1) for every friend that signs up under their referral.

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Yahoo’s teen millionaire Nick D’Aloisio on Snapchat, entrepreneurship, and education

The Next Web

It should come as no surprise that Summly founder, teen millionaire, and startup darling Nick D’Aloisio loves Snapchat. When you have a conversation with someone, most people forget the majority of the context days – if not seconds – after the fact. “If To D’Aloisio, the natural human behavior isn’t to journal everything.

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Copper Banking adds $9M in funding as digital banks clamor for teen customers

TechCrunch

Copper Banking , a digital banking service aimed at teens, announced today it has raised a total of $13.3 We worked with millions of teens and parents in our previous company,” Behringer told TechCrunch. The result, Behringer adds, is fewer fees for its teen customers. million in seed funding. The pair attribute Snap!

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