Social media giant Instagram brings the expected feature, Parental Controls. The platform, which has 500 million active users daily, also includes users who are children. However, this makes Instagram, which has so many active users, not a safe place.
Instagram has decided to introduce an authorization feature for parental control with kids in mind. Instagram Manager Adam Mosseri announced that he has brought Parental Controls in a statement on his blog today. The feature, which is only available for the USA for now, will come to other countries in the coming months. So how will it work and what will its content be? Let’s take a look at the details of the news together.
Instagram will be meticulous about parental controls
Social media platform Instagram; “Parents know what’s best for their kids,” he said. Based on this, he announced that he first established a Family Center. Then, he said that he did research with parents and children, and as a result, they prepared articles and videos with experts. He stated that by accessing these resources, parents will have information to control the accounts of young people in Meta technology.
Accounts using Instagram Parental Controls will be able to use the following features:
- See how much time kids spend on Instagram and set a time limit.
- See the accounts they report and receive notifications from them.
- View which accounts children follow and updates about the accounts they follow.
The opening of these features will be in the form of parents sending requests to children and their approval. This feature, which is currently only available on smartphones and in the USA, will be available on desktop computers and other countries in the future.
What do you, our readers, think about this issue? Do you think the Instagram Parental Controls app will be useful? You can comment or express your thoughts on the SDN Forum.
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