December 11 (Portaltic/EP) –
instagram has officially launched the new Teenage accounts in Europe and Spainso that underage users will have access to built-in protection functions more advanced by default, which limit issues such as who can contact them and the content they see on the platform.
The social network owned by Meta announced Teen Accounts in September of this year, when it presented them as a new tool that seeks to make it easier for teenagers to use social networks to connect with friends and explore their interests “without having to worry about unsafe or inappropriate experiences.”
Now, with the arrival of the Christmas holiday period, a time in which teenagers spend more time on social networks, Instagram has begun to launch the Accounts of teenagers in Spainwhich have also begun to be deployed in Europe.
As the platform has detailed in a statement, it is also a “unique opportunity” for Parents be aware of online safetyin order to prepare your children for the arrival of Teenage Accounts.
Specifically, with the aim of guaranteeing appropriate use of the social network for minors and “greater security and tranquility” for families, adolescents will begin to have this online experience integrated into your Instagram account graduallywith measures such as limiting unwanted interactions, inappropriate content and the daily time spent using the platform.
These protection parameters are will be automatically activated in the accounts of minor users, Likewise, they will be the parents or guardians those in charge of deciding whether Children under 16 years of age can adjust some measurements to make them less restrictive, or if they want to keep the strictest version offered by default. All of this can be managed through the tool Instagram parental supervision.
With all this, Instagram has explained that, for the launch, the teenager will receive a notification on your smartphone informing about the deployment of Teen Accounts and, after that, your account will adopt the corresponding measures within a period of seven days.
TEEN ACCOUNT PROTECTIONS
The Meta social network has recalled that Teenager Accounts have been designed as private by defaultso users will have to manually accept each new follower, and people who don’t follow them will not be able to see their content or interact with them. The accounts will be private for both minors under 16 and minors under 18 years of age.
Likewise, adolescents will only be able to receive messages from people they follow or are already connected with and, continuing with the interactions, minors can only be tagged or mentioned by the people they follow.
Regarding sensitive content, will limit exposure of adolescents to certain types of publications, such as videos with violence or that promote aesthetic procedures, in sections like Explore and Reels. This automatically places them in the “most restrictive setting” of Meta’s sensitive content control.
Instagram will also activate the more restrictive version of its anti-harassment feature for these accounts, as well as the function Filtered wordswhich will prevent offensive words and phrases from being displayed in teens’ comments and direct message requests.
Finally, regarding the time limits When using the social network, minors will receive suggestions to exit the application after using it for 60 minutes a day. Likewise, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. the next day, the rest mode It will be activated automatically.
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