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Meta brings ‘teen accounts’ to Facebook and Messenger

Engadget

Meta is bringing its teen accounts to Facebook and Messenger. Like on Instagram, the company will begin automatically moving younger teens to the new accounts, which come with mandatory parental control features and restrictions on who they can message and interact with. Teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger will operate similarly.

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Instagram internal research: ‘We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls’

The Verge

As one slide from an internal Facebook presentation put it: “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.” (The Teens told Facebook’s researchers that they felt “addicted” to Instagram and wanted to check it less often, but didn’t have the self-control to rein in their usage.

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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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Vybe raises $2.9 million for its challenger bank for teens

TechCrunch

million) to build a challenger bank for teens. Overall, 260,000 teens have pre-ordered a card already. Thousands of cards have been delivered and the first metrics are encouraging. French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million funding round (€2.4 The company is currently testing its product with a soft launch.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. GivingTuesday is ramping up for its 2014 campaign and it looks like children and teens will be a part of the movement. One example is Emily Barr from Maryland is a clever 5th grader who wants to help her best friend who has Cystic Fibrosis.

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Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst

TechCrunch

I still look back on all the time that I spent as a teen, crushed by stigma and afraid to talk about mental health with my friends and family,” says the Stanford grad. Teens, often with the support of their parents, are matched through the Somethings system with mentors who have similar backgrounds and situational experiences.

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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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