The Snapchat application is a tool that can help us understand the link between adolescence and social networks. Social networks impose on adolescents’ development as much as they support adolescents in the process of separation, in their perception of themselves, and in their control of their own changing – and even upsetting – body. It is essential that we understand the effects of these media in order to support adolescents in these processes.

Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 431-443.