Tiktok’s Addictive Algorithm

A study of YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook revealed that American Teens—by a large margin—use YouTube (71%) more than TikTok ...

Is Social Media Hurting Marriages?

Melissa Kearney, author of The Two-Parent Privilege offered the following observation on X:

I gave another talk about the Two Parent Privilege to college ...

Mom’s Dilemma: Healthy Food but Unhealthy Porn

Columnist Peggy Noonan wrote a sobering article based on the work of researcher Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation: How the Great ...

The Great Rewiring of Childhood

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who believes that your child’s smartphone is a threat to mental well-being. His new book, The Anxious Generation: ...

Social Media is ‘Hijacking My Brain’

“It’s hijacking my brain.” Say young people addicted to social media and who are desperate for help. Many people have compared the addictive ...

Smartphones Turbocharge the Dangers of Porn

Since the 2007 launch of the iPhone, smartphones have granted billions of people customized, password-protected, hand-held access to a near-limitless ...

Phishing and Temptation

Phishing is a word for a type of online scamming and this type of activity is growing. The FBI reports over 300,000 complaints and over 50 million dollars ...

Number of Teenagers ‘Almost Constantly’ on Social Media Doubles

The number of teenagers who say they are chronically online has nearly doubled since 2015, according to a survey from Pew Research Center. YouTube is ...

TikTok Drives Minors Deep into Negative Content

In a kind of “sting operation” on the social media site TikTok, The Wall Street Journal created dozens of automated accounts, also called ...

Toddler Unfazed After Rescue from Claw Machine

When three-year-old Kali Porter decided she wanted a bouncy ball from the claw machine, she first tried the direct approach, attempting to grab it on ...