An Overview of Youth Social Media Trends February 19, 2025

FREE!

Participants will learn the most recent trends in teen usage and abusage of social media and personal electronic communication.

This presentation is a detailed, analytical, evidence-based investigation into how young people around the world are reaching out to their peers in both wholesome and self-destructive ways, fulfilling their most profound social-emotional need: contact, affirmation, reassurance, and validation. At a time when adolescent males and females are undergoing powerful body changes and attempting to forge and establish a sense of personal identity for themselves, they are particularly vulnerable to negative influences – and criminal actions – from the outside world.

We will delve into a great number of the factors involved in this phenomenon, and attendees will be given insights, tools, information, tactics, and recommendations from a wide gamut of professionals on how to deal with such a gargantuan and global issue.