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What's Happening on Teen Social Media?

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What's Happening on Teen Social Media?

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

2 mins

Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook... social networks play an important part in the lives of teenagers. 

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In France, according to a recent survey by the Génération Numérique association, 63% of people under 13 have an account on at least one social network.

However, the numerical majority is fixed at 15 years.

Discussion, exchange of photos, videos, games... New spaces for dialogue are now possible on the web, far from the gaze of adults.

A privileged online world that can turn into a real trap for young people in the midst of construction.

Various studies warn, for example, of the negative impact of Instagram on the image and well-being of young girls.

The use that teenagers make of social networks also raises questions.

Witness the #anti2010 harassment phenomenon in France, born of the Fortnite online video game, and of which some sixth-grade students were victims at the start of the school year.

What's really going on on teens' phones?

Should they be banned from social media?  

Rebroadcast of Tuesday, November 16, 2021

With :

- Michael Stora

, psychologist and psychoanalyst, addictions and digital specialist. 

- Judith Duportail

, journalist, author of the

available on Arte radio and podcast platforms and several books on social networks, including

 and 

- Elodie Gentina

, professor-researcher in marketing at the Institute of Scientific Economics and Management (IÉSEG School of Management).

Generation Z specialist (between 11 and 25 years old).

A focus from

, RFI correspondent in Beijing, China, where there are more than a billion people connected.

And where the Chinese authorities have taken drastic measures.

The Chinese version of Tik Tok is now limited to 40 minutes per day for those under 14, and the online game Fornite is now inaccessible.

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– Angèle  

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