Hacker News with Generative AI: Teenagers

The Teenager Who Lived a Secret Double Life as a Millionaire Crypto Bandit (vice.com)
In May 2018, Darren Marble was attending a cryptocurrency conference in New York City when he discovered he had become a victim of a new and financially devastating form of crime.

Cybercrime, Cryptocurrency, Teenagers, Finance

7 points by paulpauper 13 days ago | 2 comments

"Unprecedented" decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts (arstechnica.com)
Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

Teenagers, Drug Use, Public Health, Social Trends

7 points by GeoAtreides 29 days ago | 6 comments

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts (arstechnica.com)
Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

Teenagers, Drug Use, Public Health, COVID-19, Social Trends

371 points by pseudolus 31 days ago | 596 comments

Nearly half of US teens are online 'constantly,' Pew report finds (apnews.com)
Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly” despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health, according to a new report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

Teenagers, Social Media, Internet Usage, Mental Health, Research

10 points by djoldman 36 days ago | 2 comments

Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit' (bbc.com)
A chatbot told a 17-year-old that murdering his parents was a "reasonable response" to them limiting his screen time, a lawsuit filed in a Texas court claims.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Lawsuits, Parenting, Teenagers

81 points by tartoran 37 days ago | 2 comments

Russian teenagers are being locked up for expressing dissent (cnn.com)

Russia, Politics, Human Rights, Teenagers, Censorship

10 points by peutetre 44 days ago | 1 comments

Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds (theguardian.com)
Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another, according to a damning new study that found its moderation “extremely inadequate”.

Social Media, Mental Health, Teenagers, Research, Facebook

33 points by rntn 48 days ago | 14 comments

How America Outlawed Adolescence (2016) (theatlantic.com)
At least 22 states make it a crime to disturb school in ways that teenagers are wired to do. Why did this happen?

Education, Law, Teenagers, Social Issues, United States

8 points by colinprince 52 days ago | 5 comments

Time alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers – even when on social media (cam.ac.uk)
People in their late teens experience an increased sensitivity to threats after just a few hours left in a room on their own – an effect that endures even if they are interacting online with friends and family.

Psychology, Social Media, Teenagers, Human Behavior

5 points by gnabgib 65 days ago | 1 comments

Into the Phones of Teens (newyorker.com)
About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of Arizona freshman named Sydney—as she exercises on an elliptical machine at the gym.

Social Media, Teenagers, Documentary

7 points by mitchbob 69 days ago | 1 comments

Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds (variety.com)
Teens want movies and shows to stay in the friend zone.

Entertainment, Media, Teenagers, Social Trends, Research

48 points by Michelangelo11 83 days ago | 42 comments

Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide? (nytimes.com)
The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death.

Artificial Intelligence, Suicide, Teenagers, Mental Health

52 points by uxhacker 87 days ago | 132 comments

GPS Tracking of Teens 24/7 Impacts Parent-Child Relationships (scientificamerican.com)
Phone apps can tell whether your kid is playing hooky. But remotely surveilling your child might not be great for navigating the trials of the teen years

Parenting, Technology, Teenagers, Surveillance

15 points by Brajeshwar 91 days ago | 4 comments

Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives (theguardian.com)
The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors – and has had similarly seismic effects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?

Education, Ireland, Teenagers, Social Impact

205 points by joveian 93 days ago | 133 comments

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege (npr.org)
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.

Social Media, Teenagers, Lawsuits, TikTok, Research

9 points by fahrbach 95 days ago | 5 comments

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege (npr.org)
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.

Social Media, Teenagers, Lawsuits, Data Privacy

16 points by dmitrygr 98 days ago | 2 comments

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege (npr.org)
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.

Social Media, Teenagers, Lawsuits, TikTok, Research

7 points by ffujdefvjg 98 days ago | 1 comments

States probed TikTok for years. The documents the app tried to keep secret (npr.org)
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.

Social Media, Privacy, Teenagers, Government Regulations, Lawsuits

10 points by pseudolus 99 days ago | 1 comments

CDC reports social media associated with bullying, sadness, and suicide (cdc.gov)
This report provides the first national prevalence estimate of social media use from a representative sample of U.S. high school students.

Social Media, Health, Teenagers, Suicide, Bullying

5 points by cwoolfe 101 days ago | 3 comments

How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet (eff.org)

Privacy, Online Safety, Teenagers, Advertising

118 points by mooreds 103 days ago | 72 comments

No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems (psycnet.apa.org)

Social Media, Mental Health, Teenagers, Research

64 points by beefman 105 days ago | 121 comments

Instagram Teen Accounts (about.fb.com)
Today, we’re introducing Instagram Teen Accounts, a new experience for teens, guided by parents. Teen Accounts have built-in protections which limit who can contact them and the content they see, and also provide new ways for teens to explore their interests. We’ll automatically place teens into Teen Accounts, and teens under 16 will need a parent’s permission to change any of these settings to be less strict.

Social Media, Privacy, Teenagers, Facebook, Parental Controls

31 points by ChrisArchitect 122 days ago | 71 comments

Teen Girls' Brains Aged Rapidly During Pandemic, Study Finds (nytimes.com)
A study of adolescent brain development that tested children before and after coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in the United States found that girls’ brains aged far faster than expected, something the researchers attributed to social isolation.

Teenagers, Brain Development, Pandemic, Social Isolation, Science

17 points by bookofjoe 124 days ago | 4 comments

Who is responsible for the greatest change to our language? Teenage girls (abc.net.au)
Linguists are discovering that teenage girls are trailblazers when it comes to language.

Linguistics, Language, Teenagers, Culture

38 points by Tomte 126 days ago | 41 comments

YouTube to restrict teenagers' exposure to videos about weight and fitness (theguardian.com)

YouTube, Social Media, Teenagers, Health, Fitness

39 points by vasco 133 days ago | 63 comments

YouTube to restrict teenagers' exposure to videos about weight and fitness (theguardian.com)

YouTube, Social Media, Teenagers, Health, Fitness

6 points by howard941 134 days ago | 4 comments

Young girls using anti-aging products seen on social media with bad outcomes (medicalxpress.com)

Social Media, Skincare, Health, Teenagers

19 points by Gaishan 138 days ago | 3 comments

Dungeons, Dragons and shoulder pads: Why I loved D&D as a closeted teen (npr.org)

Nostalgia, LGBTQ+, Teenagers, Identity

14 points by sabrina_ramonov 144 days ago | 0 comments

Google sales reps allegedly keep telling advertisers how to target teens (theverge.com)