Meta and Pinterest believed to have donated to Molly Russell charity https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/05/meta-and-pinterest-donated-to-uk-internet-safety-charity-say-reports #Internetsafety #Digitalmedia #Socialmedia #Youngpeople #Technology #Pinterest #Charities #Children #Internet #Society #Media #Meta
Business Insider: Gen Z’s safe space. “Occupy Wall Street, Notorious RBG, cottagecore. These and several other lasting internet trends and IRL movements of the 2010s were born not on Twitter, on Facebook, or in the mainstream media but on Tumblr. You might remember it as the blogging platform that became one of the most hyped startups in the world before fading into obsolescence — bought by […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/business-insider-gen-zs-safe-space/
#ChuckSchumer doesn't care
#Schumer doesn't care about #YoungPeople or #OldPeople or any part of #America
Schumer cares only about the geriatric white men of the #DemocraticNationalCommittee and his world-class #HealthCare and his lifetime #Pension and his personal #NetWorth
Schumer is gliding down, hanging from his #GoldenParachute, descending into the #GoldenYears of his retirement
That's all that matters now
The #UnitedStatesofAmerica can go suck eggs for all Chuck cares
UK poll: Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate
Work and money worries young people more than culture wars or climate, UK poll finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/31/work-and-money-worries-young-people-more-than-culture-wars-or-climate-uk-poll-finds #Youthunemployment #Climatecrisis #Unemployment #Youngpeople #Classissues #Socialmedia #Inequality #Politics #Society #UKnews #Gender
‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/29/incel-accounts-using-self-improvement-language-to-avoid-tiktok-bans-study #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Digitalmedia #Youngpeople #Socialmedia #Technology #Society #TikTok #Media #Men
https://www.europesays.com/1950350/ WHO: One in four young adults in Greece suffers from mental health issue #greece #health #INDEPTH #society #YoungPeople #Ελλάδα #νεα
‘I know what it is to go down the rabbit hole’: the male coaches pulling young men back from the edge https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/mar/26/male-coaches-masculinity-mental-health #JordanPeterson #Wellactually #Lifeandstyle #Mentalhealth #Socialmedia #Youngpeople #AndrewTate #Society #Women #Men
Video games can’t escape their role in the radicalisation of young men | Keith Stuart https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/24/video-games-cant-escape-their-role-in-the-radicalisation-of-young-men #Adolescence #Onlineabuse #Youngpeople #Culture #Games
Adolescence to The Virtues: the most heartbreaking TV of all time https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/20/adolescence-to-the-virtues-the-most-heartbreaking-tv-of-all-time #Television&radio #StephenGraham #ShaneMeadows #Youngpeople #Television #JackThorne #Culture #Society #Drama
#marketers #influencers #GenZ #YoungPeople
'Recently published in the Journal of Brand Strategy, “Tapping generation Z micro-influencers for marketing and branding” outlines that the key to reaching Gen Zers may lie in the utilization of non-celebrity influencers, better known as micro-influencers. '
https://news.temple.edu/news/2025-03-18/micro-influencers-have-major-influence-generation-z
"Young Americans’ confidence in the apparatus of government has dropped dramatically to one of the lowest levels in any prosperous country, a Financial Times analysis of Gallup data shows.
The Gallup polls, conducted by surveying 70,000 people globally over the course of 2023 and 2024, found that less than a third of under-30s in the US trust the government. The proportion of US young people who said they lack freedom to choose what to do with their lives also hit a record high at 31 per cent in 2024 — a level worse than all other rich economies, bar Greece and Italy.
“[For younger people in the US] the future seems kind of bleak,” said Julie Ray, managing editor at Gallup.
While the Gallup poll does not cover the direct repercussions of US President Donald Trump’s second term, experts believe that rising political polarisation is likely to lead to a sharp drop in trust in future surveys.
Connor Brennan, a 25-year-old financial economics PhD student at the University of Chicago and a disillusioned Republican, said he trusted the “big figures” in politics “a little less” now than in the past.
“Friends, families these days are more and more torn apart by politics and seeing that [politics] taken as almost entertainment,” Brennan said. “It should be boring . . . it really has become more and more like, you watch the latest episode of the sitcom.”"
https://www.ft.com/content/44a7927b-66d7-4321-8425-08ed162a3994
Netflix drama Adolescence has lessons for us all about alienated young men | Vanessa Thorpe https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/netflix-drama-adolescence-young-men-society #Television&radio #StephenGraham #Youngpeople #Television #JackThorne #Culture #Netflix #Society
Gizmodo: TikTok Will Try to Lull Kids to Sleep to Stop Endless Scrolling. “It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are? Odds are they are probably in their room scrolling on TikTok, but at least now you can rest assured that the app is taking steps to make them listen to lo-fi beats to chill to. TikTok announced that it will be introducing a new feature for users under the age of 16 that […]
How Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
ProPublica: How a Global Online Network of White Supremacists Groomed a Teen to Kill. “… in August 2019, Juraj Krajčík, then a soft-faced 16-year-old with a dense pile of brown hair, immersed himself in a loose collection of extremist chat groups and channels on the massive social media and messaging platform Telegram. This online community, which was dubbed Terrorgram, had a singular […]
"When you work it all through, only 6% of #GenZ really support a #dictatorship, in any recognised sense of the term. The problem we seem to be facing is not a whole generation of autocratic young people but a complex question answered quickly in #onlinepolls and hugely overinterpreted in subsequent reporting.
#Youngpeople don’t want dictators: they want government that works
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/young-people-dont-want-dictators-they-want-government-that-works/
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#UKpolling
#surveylimitations
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#UKpolitics
Tubefilter: Financial advice on TikTok is a volatile market. “Social media is a growing source of financial advice for Gen Z and Millennials, but not all experiences in communities like #FinTok are positive. A survey published by Intuit Credit Karma found that most people in those cohorts have consulted creators on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram for help with their finances, but some of them […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/tubefilter-financial-advice-on-tiktok-is-a-volatile-market/
Safer phones bill aimed at young teens watered down after minister opposition https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/05/safer-phones-bill-aimed-at-young-teens-watered-down-after-minister-opposition #Internetsafety #Mobilephones #Socialmedia #Youngpeople #Smartphones #Technology #Society #UKnews
