Have you ever heard of the bikini rule for teens using social media? In this interesting New York Times article, Devorah Heitner explains how youths police each other via social media with their unwritten rules. This begs the questions, "What are you 'allowed' to post, and what seems to be off-limits? Are the rules the same for boys and girls? Why or why not? Can you show me an example of a 'good' post, or a 'bad' one? Does social media ever stress you out (and can you give yourself a break)? How can kids in your group make group texts or social media nicer for everyone?" According to Heitner, "in a study published last summer, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the pleasure centers in teenagers’ brains respond to the reward of getting 'likes' on Instagram exactly as they do to thoughts of sex or money. And just as parents try to teach children self-control around those enticements, they must also talk to them about not falling victim to behavior they will regret when craving those 'likes.'"

With all the hype about fake news in the media today, do you wonder how extensive the problem is? To stay accurately informed as a citizen, which news sources and platforms should you use? This important analysis article by Columbia Journalism Review tests out this question by examining the reach and impact of Fake News on audiences. Read here to learn more about how fake news fits into a person's overall news diet, and to see if accurate and reliable news helps to balance out the scope of the problem.