Teen's weed usage nets dad $9,000 for Guitar Hero III
You come home from work to find your teenaged son smoking pot with his loser friends in your back yard. Do you a) Lecture him about how marijuana’s a gateway drug and will turn him into a smelly...
View ArticleParamount hooks up with Habbo, plans online content based on its awesome movies
[photopress:habbbbbbbo.jpg,full,center] WORD LIFE Do you know what Habbo is? I sure as hell don’t, but it’s apparently very popular with the kids. These kids, so Paramount hopes, have plenty of money...
View ArticleHP launching teen PCs
Hey, Bro! HP is launching some gnarly teen PCs and they’ll be cold lamping in the house with sexy new designs. Ameer Karim, directory of HP’s future and innovations group, announced the new line at a...
View ArticleGoogle Earth: Throw a party in someone else's pool
Some no-good kids in the UK have been harnessing the power of Google Earth to find houses with nice pools. Once a suitable house has been found, the kids use Facebook to send out some sort of “Crash...
View ArticleFord announces MyKey feature for 2010 fleet
Debuting with the 2010 Ford Focus is MyKey, a teenage drivers worst nightmare. With the MyKey feature enabled, parents will be able to govern how fast their child can drive and annoy them with other...
View ArticleHow do you compare? Teens spend 31 hours a week online
How much time do you spend online, America? [Waits for answer.] That’s funny because the average teenager spends a cool 31 hours per week online. And what does the average teen do? The usual, I guess...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley report shows that teens don't use Twitter, don't buy music...
There’s a fantastic report coming out of Morgan Stanley that analyzes the way teens consume media in this day and age. The source was a 15-year-old boy; he interns at the company. The results will the...
View ArticleSurvey: 13 percent of teens have posted nude photos of themselves online
A new poll, conducted by Common Sense Media, suggests that teens are complete idiots when it comes to comporting themselves online. A whopping 13 percent of teens have posted online nude or semi-nude...
View ArticleStupid teens still text and drive because they're stupid
Despite the fact that you’d have to be a stupid idiot to still text and drive, plenty of teens in the U.S. still text and drive. “By the time [the police] pull you over, the chances are you are going...
View ArticlePew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text
If you’ve seen a teenager in the last two years, then you’ve seen a teenager texting. Seriously, I can’t think of a situation in the last couple of years where I saw a teenager without a cell phone....
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Study: 37% Of U.S. Teens Now Use Video Chat, 27% Upload Videos
Video chat is still something many people don’t feel comfortable with. For U.S. teens, however, it is quickly becoming a pretty routine way of communicating with each other. According to a new study by...
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McAfee: Sneaky Teens Surf On PCs More Than Mobile, Facebook Rules Over All...
Going mobile may be the mantra for a lot of tech companies these days, but if they’re in the business of targeting teenagers with their services, perhaps they should think twice: over 37 percent of...
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Online Kids' Clothing Consignment Service thredUP Opens Its Next New...
As hinted at following the raise of its $14.5 million in Series C financing this fall, online kids’ clothing consignment thredUP is now expanding into new verticals, starting with clothing for teens....
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Facebook Links Up With Attorneys General In 19 U.S. States For Teen Social...
Facebook is taking a step today in its bid to position itself as the privacy-respecting social network: it is announcing an alliance with the U.S.’s National Association of Attorneys General to provide...
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Tumblr's Teenaged, Double-Edged Sword
“im ddeleting the internet [sic]“: A telling re-blog from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of re-postings that had her pondering Tumblr’s impact...
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Over A Year After New Content Policies, “Self-Harm Social Media” Still Thrives
About a year and a half ago, just in time for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Tumblr took a hard stance against blogs on its network that encouraged “self harm.” This includes those that...
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Trouble With Teens Could Trip Up Today’s Facebook Earnings
When Facebook mentioned “a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens” in last quarter’s earnings call, its share price fell from $57.98 in after-hours to open the next day at $47.16,...
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Amid Bullying & Threats Of Violence, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Shuts Off...
Anonymous communication platforms and the pre-teen-to-teenage brain are two things that don’t mix all that well. Just look at Ask.fm, for example, the social Q&A platform whose shield of anonymity...
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Clippet Repackages News As Bite-Sized Audio Snippets For Mobile Social Teens
Getting teens engaged with goings-on in the wider world is arguably getting tougher, since they are being bombarded by a constant stream of digital distractions within their own social networks. But...
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Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials
Snapchat is now the third most popular social app among millennials, according to a recent report by comScore which finds that Snapchat has 32.9% penetration on these young users’ mobile phones,...
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