Beyond “Good” vs “Bad” Apps

[Dr. Elizabeth Englander]: And I do think sometimes as adults, we tend to overfocus on this idea that there’s sort of “bad apps” and “good apps.” What we actually find in our research, which kind of I think dovetails exactly what you were just saying, Lanice, is that apps are used differently by different kids and that actually the apps with the most negative uses, which in our research is Instagram and Snapchat, are also the ones with the most positive uses, which kind of helps explain why kids don’t really want these approaches where we just say, this is a “bad app” or this is a “good app.”