Meta upgraded the Instagram Safety features for adolescence, the company said in an email received by the news.
Meta told Hill’s partner in email that upgrade includes teenagers who are able to see “options to see safety tips and display an account prominently on top of the new DM. [direct messaging] Chat, as well as the person joined Instagram. ,
The company said that the purpose of those upgrade is “to give more reference to teenagers as to whom they are chatting with and help them spot potential scammers.”
As the use of social media has increased in the last two decades, concerns about adolescents and mental health of children have also increased dramatically.
A survey of 2,035 American adults From 2023 It was found that 50 percent of the parents, who had children under 18, believed that the mental health of their children or children had deteriorated in the previous year due to the use of social media.
In April, Meta Fresh announcement “Underitted security” for your Instagram tin accounts, in which parents need to use accounts before the age of 16 and give consent for children to “live” on platforms.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy repeated earlier this year in an interview Parents should regulate the use of social media of their children to protect their mental health, especially at a young age.
Murthy told Kryston Velkar of NBC News, “It is important to delay the use of social media for her child as long as possible,” Murthy told NBC News’s Christon Velkar.
He said, “The lines below are these devices, these platforms, in particular, social media platforms, are affecting our children,” he said.
