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Online spaces may intensify teens’ uncertainty in social interactions

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Deciphering other people’s thoughts and feelings tends to generate considerable uncertainty. In a conversation, for instance, how does one know if another person’s smile is sincere? In real life, physical cues like body language and tone of voice provide some tangible hints. In the virtual sphere, a smile takes the form of an even harder-to-read emoji. And all physical cues disappear.

How people experience — and resolve — social uncertainty is changing shape as communications shift online, researchers write in

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In my teens I barely ate and felt too big even as a size 6. Now 15 million follow my deliciously indulgent baking recipes

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With her long glossy hair, gleaming white smile and pin-neat waist on show beneath a crop top, Eloise Head looks like any other millennial social media starlet.

She’s made a name for herself with her decadent recipes — calorie-laden creations like ‘chocolate fudge cake balls’ and ‘Nutella-stuffed cookie pie’ — and has racked up more than 15 million followers online, with her cooking videos (10 billion views and counting) leading to three lucrative book deals.

Her pastel-hued world is picture-perfect.

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Teens are using an unregulated form of THC. Here’s what we know

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Walk into a gas station in the United States, and you may see more than just boxes of cigarettes lining the back wall. Colorful containers containing delta-8, a form of the substance THC, are sold in gas stations and shops across the country, and teens are buying them.

A recent survey of more than 2,000 U.S. high school seniors found that more than 11 percent of them had used delta-8 in the past year, researchers report March 12 in JAMA

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Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evidence shows. What now?

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In January, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, appeared at a congressional hearing to answer questions about how social media potentially harms children. Zuckerberg opened by saying: “The existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health.”

But many social scientists would disagree with that statement. In recent years, studies have started to show a causal link between teen social media use and reduced well-being

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Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out

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In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its citizens’ extroversion. Americans weren’t just setting out to build new churches and new cities. Their associations were, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “of a thousand different types … religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute.” Americans seemed adept at forming

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A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld

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Sharma was calling from Apartment 504. If he’d stepped out onto the balcony, or just looked out a window, he likely would have seen the dead body down below. Perhaps he called Nunes to find out whether the police had drawn a connection between the body and the building. Or perhaps Sharma believed that, through some wild coincidence, it was someone else’s corpse, and Zac had survived the fall. This might explain why he sent the chauffeur, Carlton, to visit

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The city break that’ll bring even the surliest of teens to life: Inside Washington DC – the capital of cool for youngsters. It’ll even distract them from their phones, our writer discovers…

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‘Welcome to the capital of the world!’ exclaimed our taxi driver as we crossed the Potomac into Washington DC.

My teenagers’ eyes shone with excitement.

Given that eight hours earlier they’d barely been speaking to me as I informed the British Airways stewardess I was a nervous flyer and therefore quite keen for a gin and tonic, things were looking up.

‘Look left and you’ll see the White House,’ continued the driver, and we peered through the dark to see

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Millennials ‘alarmed’ by people in their teens and 20s saying they ‘want to die’ at age 30 because they ‘can’t hack’ becoming ‘unattractive hags’ – and compare Gen Z ageing fears to noughties panic over gaining weight

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For some, turning 30 meant getting family and friends together for a big party, or going on that once-in-a-life time trip they had always wanted to experience.

But reaching the milestone has apparently become somewhat terrifying for Generation Z, those born between 1998 and 2012, as they fear becoming ‘unattractive hags’.

That’s according to a recent Reddit thread, in which millennials and those older have become alarmed by the younger generation’s horror at celebrating their 30th.

‘Gen Z’s fear of

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Luke The Nuke Littler is beaten in epic Ally Pally World Darts Final: Teen’s dreams are dashed as rival Cool Hand Luke Humphries takes five sets in a row to bag the title 7-4 in front of celeb-packed crowd – but 16-year-old takes home £200,000

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Luke Humphries denied teenage darts prodigy Luke Littler a sensational victory in the World Darts Championship in a pulsating final tonight.

The world number one powered past the 16-year-old who has taken the world of darts by storm in a topsy-turvy match that left the crowd at London’s Alexandra Palace on their feet.

Much like in the semi-finals, Humphries got off to a quick start by pinching the first set while Littler struggled to find his range. 

However, the teenager

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Aussie teens reveal what they’re really doing at schoolies (and why they won’t be telling their parents)

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The worst fears of parents have been confirmed in a revealing TikTok video which grilled teenagers about what they planned to do at Schoolies Week – and most of it centres around sex, drugs and drinking to excess.

The teenage partygoers on the Gold Coast were quizzed in the street about what they will be doing at schoolies that they won’t telling their parents.

One young woman interviewed vowed she was planning to ‘finally lose my virginity’, while several teenage

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