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Instagram will restrict teens from going Live, as Teen Accounts expand to Facebook and Messenger

Mashable Tech

Teens on Instagram won't be able to broadcast Live to their friends without getting parental permission first, as Meta amps up youth safety features for its Teen Accounts across all its platforms. And it's not just for Instagram now: The parent company will also begin rolling out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger today (April 8).

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Number of teens using Facebook crashes as YouTube becomes platform of choice

TechSpot

It questioned 1,316 U.S. teens between the ages of 13 and 17 about their online habits and found that just 32% of them use the Facebook app. The bad news for Facebook came from a survey by Pew Research Center.

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Instagram to introduce “take a break” feature and “nudge” teens away from harmful content

The Verge

He added that in addition to pausing plans for an Instagram Kids platform and giving parents optional controls to supervise teens, the company planned to introduce a feature “called ‘take a break,’ where we will be prompting teens to just simply take a break from using Instagram.”. Clegg didn’t provide a timeline for either feature.

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

The Verge

It’s a hugely important question, especially with Facebook planning to launch a version of the app for children. As one slide from an internal Facebook presentation put it: “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.” (The Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase

TechCrunch

Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. This would explain in part why apps like SendIt, NGL, and Nocapp (some are Snapchat connected tools) took off as ways for teens to anonymously comment on each other. Just ask Snapchat.

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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that confirm the trend: young people don’t Tweet. The Mashable blog raised the question, "Why don't they tweet?". International Youth Conference. View more presentations from kanter. .

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Limbix releases clinical trial data on a self-guided mental health app for teens

TechCrunch

SparkRx is a self-guided therapy program for teens run entirely on a phone. . SparkRx, which is designed to help teens manage depression, is the company’s first product to be clinically evaluated. The app encourages teens to take note of their feelings, and schedule activities that leave them feeling better. .

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