A legal loophole is allowing children who access social media to see enticing advertisements for marijuana with potentially ...

In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...

Social media is bad for teens, right? That's a lot of what we hear. But a recent study examined voices missing from the ...

Modern life is digital. Adults need to help young people navigate the costs and benefits, not launch bans and hope for the best.

I have yet to find a compelling study that shows positive benefits for teens of long-term social media use. When my kids ask about using social media, I challenge them to find such research. They ...

What are the lived experiences of youth from marginalized backgrounds, and are there any benefits of online ... understanding of the topic of teens and social media is somewhere between an ...

Teens aren't just sneaking quick glances at their phones during class. They're spending an average of 1.5 hours on them every ...

Social media is one of several venues where teens' agency is limited ... But it's a temporary state that can work to our benefit by motivating us to do something less boring, or acting as an ...

Winthrop, there’s more than one kind of boredom. Sometimes, like on his family’s digital “detox days,” boredom feels like a claustrophobic craving for his smartphone. On other days, during his least ...

All this to say, the UCSF researchers believe a ban could help protect tweens and teens who spend so much time online. “Policymakers need to look at TikTok as a systemic social media issue and ...