Day 29
“It’s the election billed as the battle between #Boomers and #Zoomers. By most estimates, it’s the first time #GenZ s and #Millennials outnumber their parents and grandparents as a voting bloc.
The parties have attempted to tailor their #SocialMedia pitches accordingly on issues that disproportionately affect #YoungPeople: the cost of living, HECS debts and housing. A tide of social media #memes, AI ads and several diss tracks have been met with varying levels of enthusiasm from their target audience.”
#AusPol / #Policies / #LNP / #Liberal / #Labor / #Greens / #Coalition / #Independents <https://archive.md/kx6gL> / <https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/not-so-pitch-perfect-young-voice-concerns-and-it-s-not-just-the-cost-of-living-20250421-p5lt4n.html> (paywall)
Like me, my seven-year-old daughter loves fashion. Can I protect her from a world of impossible beauty standards? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/27/seven-year-old-daughter-loves-fashion-can-i-protect-her-from-a-world-of-impossible-beauty-standards #Lifeandstyle #Youngpeople #Bodyimage #Children #Skincare #Fashion #Society #Beauty
https://www.europesays.com/2029096/ 11 Signs Gen Z Is Experiencing Money Dysmorphia And Actually Doing Better Than They Think #business #FinancialAdvice #FinancialConcerns #FinancialSecurity #FinancialStability #GenerationGap #money #MoneyAdvice #MoneyStress #PersonalFinance #YoungPeople
Day 25 cont
“For at least 20 years, #YoungPeople have been moving away from formal #politics – such as #joining a political #party or a #volunteering organisation – and towards “#IssueBased” politics, says Prof #PhilippaCollin from #WesternSydneyUniversity. Collin researches the role of the #internet in the #PoliticalLives of young people.
“It’s pretty common that it has been interpreted as young people not being interested or involved in #CivicEngagement or political #participation,” she says.”
#AusPol
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/22/moral-panic-about-new-media-influence-on-young-voters-underplays-their-interest-in-politics-creators-say>.
CNN: Nearly half of teens say social media is bad for youth mental health, report finds. “The impact of social media on young people’s mental health and well-being is a growing topic of concern among parents, educators, health care professionals and regulators. And now, nearly half of US teens say social media has a mostly negative effect on people their age — and almost the same […]
Teenagers who go to bed early and sleep longer have sharper brains, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/teenagers-bed-early-sleep-longer-sharper-brains-study #UniversityofCambridge #Health&wellbeing #Youngpeople #Worldnews #Science #Society #Health #UKnews #Sleep
Adolescence's creator backs a social media ban for kids. He means well – but it’s the wrong move | Katrina vanden Heuvel https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/16/social-media-ban #Adolescence #Youngpeople #Socialmedia #Television #Technology #Netflix #TikTok #Media
Day 15 cont
“I want to help #YoungPeople and #FirstHomeBuyers achieve the dream of #HomeOwnership,” — #AnthonyAlbanese said.
#PeterDutton (#LNP / #Liberal) has announced a $10bn tax cut measure, which would give #Australians who earn up to $144,000 relief of up to $1,200 in the upcoming financial year.”
What a load of horse. Where is the strategy to industrialise the housing Industry to drive down costs and increase quality? <https://www.youtube.com/watchv=36I6jCrWTvQ>
Does #Labor want people to #buy or #rent? Where is this discussion? If not where is the plan to rollback (middle class #welfare) house investment & #NegativeGearing? Where is the talk of #EducationalDebt? Free TAFE for Tradies won’t solve these problems.
Dream on Labor.
Libs, $1200 dollars
#AusPol / #Labor / #LaborParty / #housing / #HousingCrisis / #Financialisation / #NegativeGearing <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/albanese-to-pledge-10bn-to-help-build-100000-homes-for-first-time-buyers>
#Vietnam #YoungPeople #CulturalHeritage #TikTok
'On March 28, 2025, the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Conservation Support Fund, the Department of Ethnic Culture, the Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and TikTok signed a cooperation agreement to digitally preserve and promote Vietnam’s cultural heritage.'
Meta and Pinterest believed to have donated to Molly Russell charity https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/05/meta-and-pinterest-donated-to-uk-internet-safety-charity-say-reports #Internetsafety #Digitalmedia #Socialmedia #Youngpeople #Technology #Pinterest #Charities #Children #Internet #Society #Media #Meta
https://www.alojapan.com/1236387/gender-gap-in-teenage-depression-is-larger-in-london-than-tokyo/ Gender gap in teenage depression is larger in London than Tokyo #Adolescence #depression #London #MentalHealth #news #TeenageDepression #teenagers #Tokyo #TokyoNews #YoungPeople #YoungPeopleMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #東京 #東京都 The gender gap in teenage depression is twice as large in London versus Tokyo, a new study from King’s College London (KCL) revealed. KCL researchers, in collaboration with the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medica…
#ChuckSchumer doesn't care
#Schumer doesn't care about #YoungPeople or #OldPeople or any part of #America
Schumer cares only about the geriatric white men of the #DemocraticNationalCommittee and his world-class #HealthCare and his lifetime #Pension and his personal #NetWorth
Schumer is gliding down, hanging from his #GoldenParachute, descending into the #GoldenYears of his retirement
That's all that matters now
The #UnitedStatesofAmerica can go suck eggs for all Chuck cares
#ChuckSchumer doesn't care
#Schumer doesn't care about #YoungPeople or #OldPeople or any part of #America
Schumer cares only about the geriatric white men of the #DemocraticNationalCommittee and his world-class #HealthCare and his lifetime #Pension and his personal #NetWorth
Schumer is gliding down, hanging from his #GoldenParachute, descending into the #GoldenYears of his retirement
That's all that matters now
The #UnitedStatesofAmerica can go suck eggs for all Chuck cares
Work and money worries young people more than culture wars or climate, UK poll finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/31/work-and-money-worries-young-people-more-than-culture-wars-or-climate-uk-poll-finds #Youthunemployment #Climatecrisis #Unemployment #Youngpeople #Classissues #Socialmedia #Inequality #Politics #Society #UKnews #Gender
Half of #youngpeople want to be #severed
A new survey has found that 46 per cent of young people wish they could divide their #work #memories and #personal memories
‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/29/incel-accounts-using-self-improvement-language-to-avoid-tiktok-bans-study #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Digitalmedia #Youngpeople #Socialmedia #Technology #Society #TikTok #Media #Men
https://www.europesays.com/1950350/ WHO: One in four young adults in Greece suffers from mental health issue #greece #health #INDEPTH #society #YoungPeople #Ελλάδα #νεα
‘I know what it is to go down the rabbit hole’: the male coaches pulling young men back from the edge https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/mar/26/male-coaches-masculinity-mental-health #JordanPeterson #Wellactually #Lifeandstyle #Mentalhealth #Socialmedia #Youngpeople #AndrewTate #Society #Women #Men
Temple University: Micro-influencers have a major influence on Generation Z. “Recently published in the Journal of Brand Strategy, ‘Tapping generation Z micro-influencers for marketing and branding’ outlines that the key to reaching Gen Zers may lie in the utilization of non-celebrity influencers, better known as micro-influencers.”