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Teenage brains are drawn to popular social media challenges – here's how parents can get their kids to think twice

  • Written by Elisa M. Trucco, Associate Professor of Psychology, Florida International University
Teenage brains are drawn to popular social media challenges – here's how parents can get their kids to think twiceThe milk crate challenge went viral in the summer of 2021. ER doctors weren't amused. Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty Images

Viral social media trends started innocently enough.

In the early 2010s there was planking, the “Harlem Shake” dance and lip syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen’s summer anthem “Call Me Maybe.”

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