Share Facebook and Instagram apps an update on how to protect young people from harm and seek to provide safe and suitable experiences for adolescents on both applications.
Mita, who owns Facebook and Instagram last year, has participated in some measures to protect adolescents from interacting with adults who are likely to be suspicious . . For example, Mita prevents adults from the teenagers who are not related to them, or from adolescents seeing recommendations People you may know.
In addition to testing ways to protect adolescents from correspondence with suspicious adults who are not related to them, they will not present them in the recommendations of “people you may know” to teenagers.
For example, the “suspicious” account is an account of an adult who may have been blocked or reported by a teenager . . . as an additional protection layer,
Meta also tests the complete removal of the message button from adolescent accounts on Instagram when suspicious adults are seen.
Meta has developed a number of tools so that teenagers can inform us if there is something that makes them feel uncomfortable while using dead applications, and provides new notifications that encourage them to use these tools.
For example, the dead teenagers demanded reporting accounts after banning someone, and sending them safety notifications containing how to deal with inappropriate messages from adults.
In just one month in 2021, more than 100 million people saw safety notifications on Messenger.
Matta also facilitated the people to find reporting tools, and as a result, it witnessed an increase of 70 % in the communications sent to us by the minors in the first quarter of 2022 against the previous quarter on the messenger and direct messages on Instagram.
The new virtual settings of the privacy of teenagers on Facebook
As of today, the default settings will be set for each of the ages of less than 16 years (or less than 18 years in certain countries) to become more private when they join Facebook, and teenagers who are already in the application will encourage the choice of these most special settings to determine:
● Who can see their friends list
● Who can see people, pages, and lists they follow
● Who can watch the posts that were referred to in their name in their profile
● Review the publications that were referred to before the publication appeared in their personal file
● Who is allowed to comment on public posts
This step comes in the wake of a dead offering of virtual settings similar to privacy for adolescents on Instagram that is in line with the design framework according to safety and “caring for the child’s interest”.
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