According to a Monday announcement from Facebook Teen Accounts Private, users under the age of 16 who sign up for the service will now have more private settings enabled by default.
Teens who already have accounts on Facebook will get a message encouraging them to use these options as well as a toggle that makes them available with just one click.
What’s New?
Only a teen’s friends may see the posts they’re tagged in, their friends list, and the pages, people, and lists they follow thanks to Facebook’s “more private” settings, which restrict access to an account’s details.
Additionally, they only permit friends to comment on their public postings and ask users to assess posts in which they are tagged.
Additionally, Facebook is making additional efforts to safeguard teenagers from unscrupulous adults. He is trying a method to prevent teenagers from using the platform to send messages to adults that have recently been blocked or reported by a teenager.
What’s More?
Additionally, Facebook will stop suggesting these “suspect” adults to minors in People You May Know suggestions and will start encouraging them to report blocked accounts.
In the meanwhile, Instagram is experimenting with completely removing the message button from teen accounts when an untrustworthy adult views them.
Similar worldwide privacy settings for minors were also introduced by Instagram in August. Instagram, like Facebook, has begun to set the most stringent sensitive content control option by default for new users under the age of 16, while enticing minors to enable the setting.
Digging Into More Details
Users will see less sexually explicit content, as well as images and videos concerning drugs, violence, and cigarette products, on the platform if the “Less” Sensitive Content Control setting is selected.
Instagram has begun warning kids if the adult they’re messaging has previously displayed suspicious conduct on the platform and barring adults from texting teens who had unfollowed them last year.
