Birthday wishes are one way that teens feel pressure to “perform closeness” on social media, posting photos and messages of ...

Social media algorithms continually feed the user information that will encourage the teenage brain to continue scrolling, drawing on FOMO, or the fear of missing out.

Australia’s push to enforce a world-first under-16 social media ban is facing early turbulence as Alphabet-owned YouTube and the country’s eSafety Commissioner clash over whether the video platform ...

Teens who see social media posts showing cannabis or e-cigarettes, including from friends and influencers, are more likely to ...

Screen time isn't the villain. Three specific psychological factors separate the teens who can scroll safely from those who ...

Some age-checking applications collect too much data and no product works 100% of the time, but using software to enforce a ...

Teens who see social media posts showing cannabis or e-cigarettes, including from friends and influencers, are more likely to ...

He was super private about his phone, which is probably why I was so obsessed with getting into phones and really seeing what ...

The government's age-assurance tech trial was supposed to provide solutions to a tough question. It seems designed to convince, rather than prove, that it works.

When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from ...

Social Studies director Lauren Greenfield on how she made the excellent Hulu docuseries about how social media shapes teens' ...

Denmark teen Laura Zauner posted a viral video showing how her art progressed from age 3 to 17, and the evolution toward hyper-realistic drawings is stunning. “I’m very happy I kept going ...