According to leaked research, the firm has found engagement among a key demographic is in declineOliver Coughlan embodies Facebook’s problems with teen and young adult audiences – a growing number of them do not like it. The 23-year-old says he stopped…
Tulsi Vagjiani: the woman who lost her family in a plane crash – and found the beauty in her burns
After a tragedy that killed her father, mother and brother, and left her severely scarred, she endured years of taunts and rejection. Now she is fighting for all those with facial disfigurementsTulsi Vagjiani was 10 years old and had been in hospital f…
Facebook pauses work on Instagram Kids after teen mental health concerns
Move follows WSJ revelations that Facebook-commissioned research showed Instagram could affect girls’ mental healthFacebook has halted work on its Instagram Kids project after revelations about the photo-sharing app’s impact on teen mental health.Insta…
Muscling in at Muscle Beach: Haley Morris-Cafiero’s best photograph
‘I took this near where people work out for my guerilla-style Wait Watchers series. When it went viral, I started getting hateful messages about my body’It all started when I took a self-portrait in Times Square, New York. After I got the film develope…
Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’
The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used…
Tell us: how has Instagram affected young people’s body image?
We’d like to hear from parents and young people about how they feel Instagram has affected the body image of younger usersNewly revealed secret internal research by Facebook has found that its Instagram app makes its younger users, particularly teenage…
‘Don’t beat yourself up’: 10 ways to feel happier with your body as the world reopens
Many of us are returning to the office or socialising for the first time in a year – and may be feeling anxious about physical changes. Here’s how to feel a little bit better about yourselfAs pandemic restrictions are lifted in England, many of us will…