by Cyberbully Advocate | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog, Featured, instagram, snapchat, social media, teens, tiktok
For our newest installment in our annual series, I’d like to introduce you to my sixteen year-old friend Elly as she sketches out the scene of modern digital life among adolescents these days. Consider this a boots-on-the-ground report covering some really relevant...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog, Featured, law, regulation, social media, teens, Uncategorized
Research demonstrates that social media offers young people significant benefits while simultaneously presenting notable risks. These services enable vital social connections, foster learning and skill development, provide safe spaces for identity exploration...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Sep 7, 2023 | ban, Blog, Featured, law, social media, youth
There has been a flurry of activity related to new legislation intending to make social media and gaming platforms safer and more accountable to upholding expected standards of trust, security, transparency, and privacy. These laws are being proposed because of...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Sep 7, 2023 | Blog, Featured, laws, prevention, social media, teens
In my last piece, I discussed how some legislation in various US states has been proposed without careful consideration of the contributing factors of internalized and externalized harm among youth. More specifically, I expressed concern that the complexities...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Sep 7, 2023 | Blog, Featured, mental health, social media
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory earlier this year entitled “Social Media and Youth Mental Health.” In this public statement, Dr. Murthy summarizes the (limited and often methodologically shaky) research related to adolescents use of social...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Apr 7, 2023 | Blog, facebook, Featured, instagram, snapchat, social media, teens, twitch, youtube
I met Amelia when speaking at a high school in Central Florida, and was struck by her wide-angle view on the impact of social media in her life, and in the lives of her peers. I thought our readers could learn a lot from her insights, and so I asked her to provide...
