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Utah is the first state in the nation to begin restricting how minors can use social media apps. Gov. Spencer Cox signed a pair of bills on Thursday that will regulate when and how minors in Utah can use of social media and aims to stop those companies from designing addicting features.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, though of flowers, candy and true love are being changed by modern technology as never before. There's good and bad and awful.

According to experts, to prevent sextortion, parents must openly discuss the matter with their children, including teenagers, as it will help them become more aware of their actions' consequences and remind them not to send any photos to someone they have not met in real life.

This week's announcement that Instagram and Facebook parent Meta will roll out new tools to give parents and guardians more control over how their kids use social media doesn't seem to have made much...

Instagram and Meta have launched Family Center, a hub where parents can access supervision controls and resources from experts.

Snapchat is about staying in touch with real friends, not building status via the size of your follower count, and in line with this, and as part of its Safer Internet Day push, Snap will soon prompt all users to review their connections via an in-app prompt, in order to remove those that they no longer want to be connected to, or share their updates with as they post. As you can see here, Snapchat will add a new alert that prompts users to tap to review their friend list. As explained by Snap:...

Friend Check Up will ask users to review their friend list so they only remain connected to those that are most important, rather than random people they dont actually know.