Social Media Challenges And 4 Reasons Teens Try Them
4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges.
Social media challenges are wide-ranging – both in the stunts they involve and the reasons why people do them.
But why do young people take up challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?
We are an engineering professor who specializes in understanding how humans interact with computers and a psychology professor with expertise in mental health, specifically traumatic stress and suicide.
Together with our research team, we conducted a series of studies to try to understand what motivates teens and young adults to participate in different challenges.
For these studies, from January 2019 to January 2020, we interviewed dozens of high school and college students in both the United States and sout...