TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tiktok-users-top-200-million-eu…
Mekke Okereke wrote:
Here's a challenge: find an adult Black man that has spent any significant time in New York as a teenager, that *hasn't* ever been detained by a cop with a gun.
This isn't rhetorical, and it's not a trick question.
It is possible to find!
A decent percent of Black men in New York have avoided this!
About 10%!
Facebook und Messenger ab sofort auch mit Teenager-Konten
Die zuerst bei Instagram eingeführten Teenager-Konten kommen in der EU auch für Facebook und den Messenger. Eltern erhalten Kontrollmöglichkeiten.
https://…
I'm reading "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren and it's both fascinating and beautifully written. Usually I wait until I'm done to post a review, but I wanted to share this excellent excerpt as a teaser:
"So how to combine a liter of fluid with active agents, customized according to the patient's weight and status, while keeping everything sterile? If this is for the ER or the ICU, we have about ten minutes to make it happen. Fortunately for the patient, there is a sleep-starved teenager apprenticed to a chain-smoking barmaid in the basement who is ready for action."
#AmReading #ReadingNow
„Die Origin-Story von Jesus enthält sämtliche Zutaten für eine spektakuläre Trash-TV-Doku-Soap: Teenager-Schwangerschaft, dubiose Vaterschaft, Kuckucks-Kind und Stallgeburt irgendwo im Nirgendwo.“
https://www.familienbetrieb.info/adventskalender-2025-tag-0…
Teenagers can manage their own time on screens using parental control tools provided the initiative comes from the children themselves.
https://theprivacydad.com/can-teenagers-manage-their-own-screen-time/
Various countries are trying to limit the access of children and some teenagers to Social Media.
Why isn't this framed as limiting the access of Social Media to children and teenagers?
Worth the read:
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/23/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum?CMP…
Worth the read:
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/23/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum?CMP…
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope