Teenagers and tech

Gender matters in digital dating abuse.

9 years ago

A major new mental health report, examining the positive and negative effects of social media, has revealed that the social media platform Instagram has the most negative impact on young people’s mental health. The Royal Society for Public Health’s #StatusOfMind report, placed video channel YouTube at the top of the table as the most positive, with Instagram […]

9 years ago

A survey of secondary school students has revealed that the overuse of mobile phones by parents is damaging family life. The research, carried out by Digital Awareness UK and the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, revealed that 36% of 11 to 18-year-olds had asked their parents to put down their phones. Of those who had asked their parents […]

9 years ago

A new app allows parents to keep their children safe by monitoring the images they take and receive on their phones and tablets. The Gallery Guardian app helps parents to prevent their children from sharing and receiving inappropriate or sexual images. Once parents have downloaded the app to their phone and linked it to their child’s device, […]

9 years ago

Know anyone who’d benefit from this? Teenagers across Cork will be giving parents and adults lessons in Snapchat and other social media apps from this September. The ‘Mentor A Parent’ programme has already been piloted at Gaelcholáiste Charraig Uí Leighin in Carrigaline and is set to be rolled out with first and second year students in other […]

9 years ago

My kids aren’t even nearly teenagers yet and already I’m afraid of the internet where they’re concerned. We all hear about the violence of some of the video games, the online predators, the bullying, the potential exposure to things about the world that they aren’t ready for. And then there’s the invasion of privacy that […]

10 years ago