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FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide)
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online

Social media scams cost Americans more than $2.1 billion last year, according to the FTC
Love, investments, and shopping scams were the most common

it seems impossible I'm deeply curious what kids across ages and location do all day (after school and weekend). When my kids were younger I felt a lot of pressure to limit and monitor all technology use. Parents would brag about how they limit time.
But it's really hard to monitor your kids 24/7 because I want to do my own stuff. Also 24/7 monitoring sounds bad. But weekends are long and tech / videos / games can easily fill up so much time.
I've lost track on what i…

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Indonesia begins implementing a regulation that bans under-16s from digital platforms that could expose them to porn, cyberbullying, online scams, and addiction (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-social-me…

Indonesia starts restricting social media access to children under 16
Indonesia has begun implementing a new government regulation approved earlier this month that bans children younger than 16 from access to digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction. Indonesia has said the measure will be implemented gradually, starting on Saturday. The move makes it the first country in Southeast Asia to ban children under 16 from having accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live and Roblox. I…

“So you have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza … And this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage and I sound obscene.”
– Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz
“They trust their own eyes and…

Wall of Carnage Gazans, Olive Trees and Mosques
In the small town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where I live, during Israel’s destruction of the Gaza Strip, a Democratic Party activist hung a flag of the state of Israel across the way from the only grocery store in town -- so that almost every member of the community would see it.

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🙈 Our study shows younger siblings spend more time on screens than big sisters and brothers
https://theconversation.com/our-study-shows-younger-siblings-spend-more-time-on-screens-than-big-sisters-and-brothers-27390…

Our study shows younger siblings spend more time on screens than big sisters and brothers
Younger siblings also spend less time per day on ‘enrichment activities’, such as music practise or reading.

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Hier het hele Gallup artikel.
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx
Desire to migrate among younger American women has quadrupled in the past decade

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👩 'Artists of steel': Japanese swords forge new fanbase
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/12/japan/japan-katana-pupularity/
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'Artists of steel': Japanese swords forge new fanbase
Despite the rapidly shrinking population of blademakers in Japan, their fine steel swords known as katana are amassing a new generation of fans, particularly younger women.