{"id":13072,"date":"2024-09-17T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2024-09-17T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:23:58","slug":"instagram-unveils-sweeping-changes-for-users-under-age-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13072","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Unveils Sweeping Changes for Users Under Age 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The app, which is popular with teenagers, introduced new settings and features aimed at addressing inappropriate online contact and content, and improving sleep for users under 18.<\/p>\n

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Instagram<\/a> unveiled a sweeping overhaul on Tuesday to beef up privacy and limit social media\u2019s intrusive effects for users who are younger than 18, as the app faces intensifying pressure over children\u2019s safety online.<\/p>\n

Instagram said the accounts of users younger than 18 will be made private by default in the coming weeks, which means that only followers approved by an account-holder may see their posts. The app, owned by Meta, also plans to stop notifications to minors from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to promote sleep. In addition, Instagram will introduce more supervision tools for adults, including a feature that allows parents to see the accounts that their teenager recently messaged.<\/p>\n

Adam Mosseri<\/a>, the head of Instagram, said the new settings and features were intended to address parents\u2019 top concerns about their children online, including inappropriate contact, inappropriate content and too much screen time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe decided to focus on what parents think because they know better what\u2019s appropriate for their children than any tech company, any private company, any senator or policymaker or staffer or regulator,\u201d he said in an interview. Instagram\u2019s new effort, called \u201cTeen Accounts,\u201d was designed to \u201cessentially default\u201d minors into age-appropriate experiences <\/em>on the app, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe decided to focus on what parents think,\u201d said Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram.<\/span>Ricky Rhodes for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The changes are one of the most far-reaching set of measures undertaken by an app to address teenagers\u2019 use of social media, as scrutiny over young people\u2019s experiences online has ramped up. In recent years, parents and children\u2019s groups have warned that Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and other apps have regularly exposed children and teenagers to bullying, pedophiles, sexual extortion and content promoting self-harm<\/a> and eating disorders.<\/p>\n

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The app, which is popular with teenagers, introduced new settings and features aimed at addressing inappropriate online contact and content, and improving sleep for users under 18.Instagram unveiled a sweeping overhaul on Tuesday to beef up privacy and limit social media\u2019s intrusive effects for users who are younger than 18, as the app faces intensifying pressure over children\u2019s safety online.Instagram said the accounts of users younger than 18 will be made private by default in the coming weeks, which means that only followers approved by an account-holder may see their posts. The app, owned by Meta, also plans to stop notifications to minors from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to promote sleep. In addition, Instagram will introduce more supervision tools for adults, including a feature that allows parents to see the accounts that their teenager recently messaged.Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said the new settings and features were intended to address parents\u2019 top concerns about their children online, including inappropriate contact, inappropriate content and too much screen time.\u201cWe decided to focus on what parents think because they know better what\u2019s appropriate for their children than any tech company, any private company, any senator or policymaker or staffer or regulator,\u201d he said in an interview. Instagram\u2019s new effort, called \u201cTeen Accounts,\u201d was designed to \u201cessentially default\u201d minors into age-appropriate experiences on the app, he said.\u201cWe decided to focus on what parents think,\u201d said Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram.Ricky Rhodes for The New York TimesThe changes are one of the most far-reaching set of measures undertaken by an app to address teenagers\u2019 use of social media, as scrutiny over young people\u2019s experiences online has ramped up. In recent years, parents and children\u2019s groups have warned that Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and other apps have regularly exposed children and teenagers to bullying, pedophiles, sexual extortion and content promoting self-harm and eating disorders.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13074,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13075,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions\/13075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}