Social media opens up an online world that many teens aren't ready to navigate on their own. And some aspects are just plain dangerous.

More than half of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 use popular social media sites like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, ...

As many parents know from experience, today’s kids spend a lot of time online. While concerns about screen time are often focused on teens—unsurprisingly, as nearly half of teen participants ...

Lawmakers’ efforts to limit the use of social media by kids are continuing into 2025 with the Kids Off Social Media Act ...

Meta has partnered with the nonprofit organization Childhelp to create a curriculum that will teach middle schoolers how to recognize forms of online exploitation, such as sextortion scams and ...

Social media may soon have a digital bouncer. Kids under 13 got a taste of their potential scroll-free future during TikTok’s ...

I have four kids − three teenagers and a preteen. And I've banned them from using (most) social media. Social media is addictive and exposes kids to an array of distractions and vices.