{"id":5712,"date":"2025-04-27T22:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2025-04-27T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:52:33","slug":"growing-up-online-social-medias-failure-to-protect-underage-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5712\/growing-up-online-social-medias-failure-to-protect-underage-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up online: Social Media&#8217;s failure to protect underage users."},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract:\n\n\n\nAs social media becomes more and more a part of everyday life for kids and teens, there\u2019s growing concern about what all this online time is doing to their mental health, sense of identity, and privacy. Apps like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat give young people fun ways to be creative and stay connected with friends, but they also open the door to some pretty serious problems\u2014like constant pressure to perform, sketchy algorithms, and not-so-great safety measures. Even though there <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5712\/growing-up-online-social-medias-failure-to-protect-underage-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: As social media becomes more and more a part of everyday life for kids and teens, there\u2019s growing concern about what all this online time is doing to their mental health, sense of identity, and privacy. Apps like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat give young people fun ways to be creative and stay connected with friends, but they also open the door to some pretty serious problems\u2014like constant pressure to perform, sketchy algorithms, and not-so-great safety measures. Even though there &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ioa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}