Tag: Teens

Should Parents Support Teens Who Want To Become Professional Gamers?

A family physician warned about a new problem this week in the New York Times: As a family doctor, I often hear from parents about how their kids push back at any attempt to limit how much time they spend playing video games. The parents will say, it’s after midnight, maybe it’s time to turn off the video game and get…

Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School

Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the U.S., and schools are paying big money for its services. Hundreds of company documents unveil a sprawling surveillance industrial complex that targets kids who can’t opt out. Caroline Haskins writes via BuzzFeed News: Using a combination of in-house artificial intelligence and human content moderators paid about $10 an…

‘OK Boomer’ Is the New Retort To Older Generations

Teens are increasingly using the phrase “OK boomer” to fire back at older generations’ criticisms. Slashdot reader ItsJustAPseudonym shares an excerpt from an NBC News article: In recent months, the phrase “OK boomer” has become a common retort in the parts of the internet inhabited by teenage and young adult users. On Instagram, the phrase appears as a hashtag alongside memes…

Youth Suicide Rate Increased 56% in Decade, CDC Says

Suicide and homicide rates have increased in recent years among young people in the U.S., according to a new federal report. From a report: The suicide rate among people ages 10 to 24 years old climbed 56% between 2007 and 2017, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate of homicide deaths decreased by 23%…

Teens Choose YouTube Over Netflix For the First Time, Survey Finds

According to Piper Jaffray’s fall 2019 survey, teens prefer watching videos on YouTube more than Netflix. CNBC reports: Piper Jaffray found 37% of teens surveyed are streaming video most often on the Google-owned platform, narrowly edging out longtime leader Netflix, which came in at 35%. The firm attributed the shift to YouTube’s diversified content library, which includes a “wide array of…

Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened To Sue Microsoft Over Racist Twitter Bot

When an artificially intelligent chatbot that used Twitter to learn how to talk unsurprisingly turned into a bigot bot, Taylor Swift reportedly threatened legal action because the bot’s name was Tay. Microsoft would probably rather forget the experiment where Twitter trolls took advantage of the chatbot’s programming and taught it to be racist in 2016, but a new book is sharing…

Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race

The behaviour that defines teenagers might be annoying, but neuroscientist Dean Burnett says it could have been crucial for the survival of our species Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332471-300-dean-burnett-on-why-disruptive-teens-might-have-saved-the-human-race/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

FTC Is Investigating Juul’s Marketing Practices

The FTC is investigating whether e-cigarette startup Juul Labs used influencers and other marketing to appeal to minors (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source). The Wall Street Journal reports: The probe, which hasn’t previously been disclosed, began before the agency’s antitrust review of a December deal in which tobacco giant Altria Group invested $12.8 billion to take a 35% stake in Juul,…