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Explore research on designing social media platforms that better support teenage users' privacy and relationship-building needs through a 13-minute conference presentation from SOUPS 2025. Discover findings from a comprehensive three-part study involving 19 adolescents aged 13-18 that identifies key barriers preventing meaningful self-disclosure on current social media platforms. Learn how existing platform norms often discourage the casual, frequent sharing that teens desire for strengthening relationships, despite their heavy reliance on social media for building and maintaining close connections. Examine the researchers' proposed platform design solutions developed through co-design interviews with participants, and understand the newly introduced "trust-enabled privacy" framework that positions trust as central to boundary regulation in digital spaces. Gain insights into how platform design shapes interaction patterns and norms that influence trust development, and how supporting trust leads to more adaptive and empowering boundary regulation, while trust erosion results in user self-censorship or disengagement. Access empirical insights and actionable guidelines for creating social media environments where adolescents feel empowered to engage in meaningful relationship-building processes while maintaining appropriate privacy boundaries.
