Meta introduces new parental supervision methods on Instagram

New York. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is adding some new parental monitoring tools and privacy features to its platforms. Significantly, social media companies are coming under scrutiny for their impact on the mental health of teenagers and they are adopting new methods of monitoring children. Many of these monitoring features require the consent of children and their parents to adopt them, and this has raised questions about how effective they are. For example, if children block someone on Instagram, a notice will be sent to them.

The purpose of this is that the parents of the children can keep an eye on their accounts. If kids opt on to this feature, the new system will allow parents to set time limits on social media usage, see who their kids are following and who is following them back. They also get information about how much time kids are spending on Instagram. However, parents cannot know the content of children’s messages through this. Instagram added a new parental supervision feature last year. Meta didn’t provide any statistics on how many teens have adopted the system so far. In this type of monitoring system, parents can know how many friends their child has that he or she follows in common.

In such a situation, when the child is following someone who is not followed by any of his friends, then the parents can be alerted that the child may not know that person in real life. According to Meta, “this will help parents understand how much their children are exposed to these accounts.” US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned last month that there is not enough evidence that social media Safe for children and teenagers. He asked IT companies to take immediate action to save the children.

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