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Online Predators and Kids

The popular social media platform Instagram recently instituted new safety policies designed to protect kids. The app is no longer allowing adults to direct message teenagers who don’t follow them, a step taken to protect kids from online predators. In…
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Instagram and Body Image

It’s not at all surprising that researchers have found a link between heavy use of the social media platform Instagram, and anxiety about one’s body image. The study, published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, surveyed one hundred…
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