2. Life Online

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In this episode, teenage boys all over the UK talk candidly to Catherine Carr about their lives online. They talk about playing together - while being alone, about lockdown and about the differences they see in the ways that girls and boys socialise. Experts provide evidence for boys' online habits from social media to YouTube. Boys reflect on what life might be like in an analogue world and describe how social media can be used to build e-commerce businesses from their phones. There's also talk about porn, (and porn addiction), its effects on boys and their sexual relationships, and how sex seems to colour everything online. Thanks to DRMZ Carmarthen Youth Project Cambridge Museum of Computing Zach Rausch New York University The Boys' Brigade (Glasgow Battalion) Haberdashers’ Boys School Brook Advisory Craig Haslop University of Liverpool Freddie Feltham The News Movement Olivia Dickinson Producer: Catherine Carr Researcher: Jill Achineku Executive Producer: Marie Helly A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4