Pinterest will warn children not to use their app during school hours
Pinterest tests a new prompt that warns children to get out of the app in school hours, S A pop -up warning encourages the US and Canada minors to stop using the app and exclude notifications by the end of the day. "The focus is a beautiful thing" Prompt says. "Stay at the moment while leaving Pinterest."
This prompt appears only to children aged 13 to 17 years and only between 8 and 15 hours on weekdays. This is a large -scale test so Pinterest says prompting will reach "millions" of minors. The platform says this is the first technology company to create this kind "Proactive" A feature to help children build healthy online habits. This may be true in the world of social media, but any fierce Nintendo fan will remember In Wii, DS and 3DS eras.
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready also announced the company’s support from S Some European countries in schools in recent years. Here in the US, New York is This is called the unofficial restriction “bell-row”. Several other countries are in the process of S
To go with this initiative, Pinterest provides a $ 1 million grant to International Technology Society in Education (ISTE) to "Support the school leaders in the creation of a healthy digital culture in their schools." This money will fund working groups in a dozen countries to help develop policies that “improve students’ digital well -being.”
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