Instagram will protect teenagers more strongly

Meta is trying to offer stronger protection to Instagram users under the age of 18 with improved privacy and parental control settings, with which it tries to ease the edge of concerns and criticisms about the harmful effects of social media. The system will automatically handle the accounts of teenagers with a special mark, which by default will be given private visibility, so the affected account owners can only exchange messages with other accounts they have followed back or are already in an active relationship with.

Users under the age of 16 can only change these default settings with parental permission. The expanded parental toolbox brings new monitoring functions, among which it becomes possible to track who the minor interacts with on the platform, and they can set various limits on the use of the application.

Those under the age of 18 will receive a notification in the application after exceeding 60 minutes a day that it would be worthwhile to give the app a little rest, and sleep mode will be set as default, which silences notifications at night. Meta will reclassify identified users within 60 days in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, with the European Union sometime later in the year.

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The Meta, by the way denies that its platform is harmful, citing a report released by the American Psychological Association last May in which researchers concluded that “social media use alone is neither beneficial nor harmful to young people.” However, according to state officials, the sharp decline in the mental health of teenagers can be seen after just one hour of social media use per day, and it is accompanied by a decrease in self-esteem, as well as a strengthening of the tendency to depression, and not only short-term, but also long-term psychological risks must be considered.