Teen Agency Beyond Meta’s Reckoning | #Childpredator | #Onlinepredator | #Sextrafficing - National Cyber Security Consulting

Teen agency beyond Meta’s reckoning

Meta and teens: Peer dynamics drive how teens move across different apps, with platform design acting as an amplifier

Teen agency beyond Meta’s reckoning | #childpredator | #onlinepredator | #sextrafficing - National Cyber Security Consulting

‘On platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat, where popularity is quantified through public likes and follower counts, every interaction gets a scoreboard. For an adolescent hyper-sensitive to social inclusion and exclusion, this design is incredibly stressful’ | Photo Credit: Reuters Meryl is 13. She describes YouTube Shorts as “so addicting”; holding her attention “just long […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!