#teenage-social-media-use — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #teenage-social-media-use, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: teens online (x2), Foursquare
This year has one last full workweek left, which seems like quite enough after everything else that 2024 has served up.
12/10/2014: Teens: Online Time Improves Our Well-Being, Though We Could Use More Sleep, PCMag
After spending Monday at the Family Online Safety Institute’s annual conference in D.C., I wrote up the surprisingly positive results of a survey that organization ordered up about teenage attitudes about time spent online. Lest people point to the Google sponsorship of this report to invalidate its results, I noted other studies that found similar results.
12/12/2014: Teens Spent Less Time on the Top Social Apps This Year, With Two Exceptions, PCMag
Two days later, I wrote up another study of online teenagers–but this one didn’t ask how they felt about where they spent that connected time.
12/14/2014: Foursquare City Guide Checks Out, Shuts Down Its App, PCMag
In this feeling-my-age post, I chronicled the demise of an app that 15 years ago had seemed to have a legit shot at taking Yelp’s place as my go-to service for finding someplace to get a meal.
#4sq #FamilyOnlineSafetyInstitute #FOSI #Foursquare #FoursquareSwarm #locationAware #PewResearchCenter #teenSocialMediaUse #teenageSocialMediaUse
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The last more-or-less full work week of the year is about to start, and I know I’ll be working the week after that to meet the last deadlines I have in 2023.
12/11/2023: Teens Are Online ‘Almost Constantly,’ Usually on These Apps, PCMag
I got an advance look at this Pew Research Center study on teenage social-media use and found it enlightening–including the part where the teenagers in the study group said they were spending slightly less time on almost every social-media app compared to last year.
12/12/2023: Google Maps Location Data to Be Stored on Your Device, Not the Cloud, PCMag
Google surprised me with this announcement, in a good way. I needed other people–for example, Electronic Frontier Foundation general counsel Jennifer Lynch–to point out how this move could spell the end of “geofence warrants” asking for Google Maps records of everybody in a particular place at a particular time.
12/13/2023: 8th Grade Career Day, Thomas Jefferson Middle School
My last speaking gig of the year had me explaining the business I have chosen to three classes’ worth of eighth graders, with compensation in the form of free coffee and breakfast pastries.
(Patreon readers got a detailed recap of this event, including some of the smarter questions the students asked.)
12/15/2023: AT&T: Spam Texts Are Down By a Third, PCMag
After talking to one of AT&T’s executives about the drop in spam-text reports they’d seen, I wanted to see if the other two nationwide carriers or its regulators at the Federal Communications Commission had seen similar trends. Sadly, they had not.
12/16/2023: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support, PCMag
The second bit of unexpected Google news this week took me all the way back to almost 30 years ago, when my online experience began with exploring Usenet on my dial-up AOL account.
#careerDay #GoogleGroups #GoogleLocationHistory #GoogleMapsTimeline #PewResearchCenter #robotexts #spamTexts #teenSocialMediaUse #teenageSocialMediaUse #Usenet