Youth Internet Monitor 2025: Which social networks do young people in Austria use?
The Austrian Safer Internet Center inquires each year: Which social networks do young people in Austria use? Which platforms are trending, which get less important? Are there differences between girls and boys? The survey was conducted in October 2024. 405 young people between 11 and 17 years old were asked. The results were published with the Youth Internet Monitor (www.jugendinternetmonitor.at) in January 2025 and are representative of the younger generation of Austria.
How can you help children to recognise fake news?
Anyone can express themselves and give their opinion on subjects or facts on the internet. However, there is a huge amount of information online and not all of it is reliable. The most important thing for young people is to learn to be critical and to think twice. Children often assume that everything on the internet is true, so they have to be taught to check their sources.
So how do you check if the information online is correct and true?