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You are here: Home / News / Have Facebook and Snapchat helped stop teenagers having sex?

Have Facebook and Snapchat helped stop teenagers having sex?

March 17, 2016 by adminstrator

17 March 2016, The Telegraph (UK) Teenage pregnancy rates have almost halved since the birth of social media as a global phenomenon, official figures show.

The startling decrease has prompted a host of theories including sex education classes paying off, changing attitudes to young motherhood and the impact of immigration.

But other have speculated that it could be that young people are simply spending less time physically in each other’s company because of social media – a phenomenon which went global around 2007, the year after Facebook expanded beyond university campuses. See more here.

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