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The most popular social media platform Facebook is working on a new video app that it hopes could win back the attention of teens. The company is basically building a standalone product where users can record and share videos of themselves lip-syncing or dancing to popular songs, similar to that of the video making app called Tik Tok, previously known as Musically. The app is designed to be a standalone competitor to Musically, which was a hit with teens and even with the pre-teens. The new app is being built by members of Facebook’s video and Watch team under leadership from Facebook’s principal lead product designer Brady Voss. The social media giant has been investigating the teen music app space since 2016. Then earlier this year, Facebook’s music efforts were reinvigorated when ...

Prolonged use of smartphones and computers may increase the risk of depression and suicide- related behaviours in teenagers, especially girls, a major study warns. "These increases in mental health issues among teens are very alarming," said Jean Twenge, from the San Diego State University in the US. "Teens are telling us they are struggling, and we need to take that very seriously," Twenge said. Researchers studied questionnaire data from more than 500,000 teens. The study published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science looked at data suicide statistics kept by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They found that the suicide rate for girls aged between 13 and 18 years increased by 65 per cent between 2010 and 2015. The number of girls experiencing s...

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