The feed audit
A 10-minute look at who they follow — and how it makes them feel.
The algorithm knows your teen's mood. Now you can too.
Asking how the feed FEELS — and letting your teen do the curating.
Why it matters
A guided ten-minute conversation where your teen walks YOU through their feed — who shows up, which accounts they actually enjoy, and which ones leave them feeling worse. The tool gives you the sequence and the exact curious-not-cop questions, then helps your teen sort accounts into keep, mute, and unfollow piles. The trick is that the teen holds the phone and does the sorting; you're the interested visitor, not the inspector. Most teens have never once been asked how their feed makes them feel — the question alone starts the cleanup.
The tool
A scripted 10-minute feed walk-through ending in keep / mute / unfollow piles your teen sorted.
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Key points
- Ask how accounts make them FEEL — the sorting follows.
- They hold the phone; you're a visitor, not an inspector.
- Mute and unfollow genuinely retrain the algorithm.
The science
Content quality predicts wellbeing effects better than time spent: feeds heavy in appearance-comparison content track with worse mood, while interest-based and humor content largely doesn't. Curation works — unfollow and not-interested signals genuinely retrain recommendation engines within weeks. Self-monitoring research applies here too: asking a teen to notice how an account makes them feel interrupts the autopilot consumption the design depends on. And handing the teen the curator role builds the durable skill — feed hygiene they run themselves — rather than a one-time parental purge that gets reversed by Friday.
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The feed audit
The algorithm knows your teen's mood. Now you can too.
The skill you're building
Asking how the feed FEELS — and letting your teen do the curating.
Key points
- Ask how accounts make them FEEL — the sorting follows.
- They hold the phone; you're a visitor, not an inspector.
- Mute and unfollow genuinely retrain the algorithm.
A scripted 10-minute feed walk-through ending in keep / mute / unfollow piles your teen sorted.
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