Meta, today announced a new, important to the safety of the youth active on social networks: these are the accounts for the attraction on Instagram. The singularity is described as a new experience of safe, secure and run by their parents.
The accounts of the teens coming in Instagram
This type of profile, there are no limits on who can contact them, and what content they can see. Moreover, they lead to the activation of the automatic settings to private and less restrictive, and age-appropriate. They are implemented as well as those that are already present on the platform, as well as members of the new people.
For children under 16 years of age, shall be the obligation to obtain authorization from parent to change the settings. Is this a form of parental control will be there until at the age of childhood, when it is determined by a parent or legal guardian.
Settings to the cloud for teens and their parents
To read, in detail, the parameters involved.
-The accounts of private: Accounts and both will be created as a private account. The children will have to accept of the followers of the young people. People who do not attend you will not be able to see the contents of the published information, or to interact with them.
-The limitations of the message: teens, shall have the settings the more restrictive to the messages, they will be able to take it from the people you follow, or are already in contact with.
-Content-sensitive: access the most limiting will become active substance has, by limiting that which is obvious, from the accounts of the pandjekura (for example, on Reels or in Explorer).
-The restriction of the interaction: teenagers can be labeled or referred only to the people who attend. The Words are Hidden and will only be enabled, in order for the words or phrases from the offensive to be filtered out automatically by the comments and messages, in the following.
-Limits the duration of: Teens will be encouraged to close the application after 60 minutes. Children over the age of 16 will be able to lengthen the time between rikujtuesve.
-Mode of sleepThis new feature makes the teens hold the sleep between 22:00 and 07:00. Replace the mode “do Not worry”, and “the reminders of the night, which prevented them to take the news at night.
-Chat, etc. of the Child: Parents will be able to see who has shared the message of the new youth of their own, but not the content).
As pointed out in a statement to the press release, many of these options were already there. Here's the explanation.
...in many of these settings were already present on the teenagers, but in some cases they may choose to not use them. The accounts of both, not only apply the extra protection, but require that the younger children (under 16 years of age) to obtain the express permission of the parents for them to change it.
The timing of the rollout
The transition of adolescents are active on the Instagram account of both, and will be completed within 60 days of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. As far as Italy and the rest of the European Union, it is going to happen later on this year.
The Meta says that it is working on technology that could prevent the children to lie about their age to join in Instagram without any limitation and in order to verify that the monitoring is requested by a parent or guardian. At the moment, it is a voluntary, you would say that, as a youth as well as the parent (s) have to accept of the experience.
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