Generation Z is now constantly in contact with social networks.
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By Olivier Bogaert, in collaboration with the federal police. Published on 09/07/2024 at 11:00 Reading time: 2 min
As school starts, let’s take a look at Generation Z, these hyperconnected teenagers. This generation quickly discovered YouTube, then other available applications such as Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. These tools allow them to meet this new need, the pleasure of speed. Everything becomes accessible without constraints and without limits. Which also leads to this desire to show off oneself on a daily basis via selfies or comments on messaging applications. These are also the tools that are favored in friendly or romantic encounters. This need to exist in the eyes of others can make them fall into the trap of challenges. Recently, one of these challenges invited the targeted person to eat waffles or cookies without removing them from their packaging. With the obligation to take a photo or film oneself, before publishing the challenge on social networks. On TikTok, we have also seen invitations pushing young girls to stage themselves and strike languid poses.
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