Your teen account protects on Instagram comes to Facebook and Messenger

Do you worry what your children on social media can do? If so, Meta’s continuous repression in terms of teenage safety may come as a relief. The company announced on Tuesday that it begins immediately, it expands its Instagram teenage accounts To other platforms, more special, Facebook and Messenger.

He also announced additional built -in protection for teenage accounts on Instagram. They will prevent children under the age of 16 live live on the platform or exclude blurred images that protect against suspicious nudity in direct messages, without parental permission.

Meta for the first time launched Instagram Teen accounts in September 2024, in an attempt to turn the platform more faster place for children and provide more opportunities for parents’ supervision and supervision. In an update on Tuesday, the company said it has changed 54 million accounts to become a teenage account so far, with more to come. The accounts offer built -in protection, including to be set to private default and hidden words feature that will automatically filter problematic comments and DM requests.

With the parent agreement, some of these characteristics may be excluded, but Meta said 97% of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15 have retained the default default measures. In an IPSO metaporrized study, the company said 94% of parents found protection useful, with 85% saying it was easier to have a positive experience on Instagram. The company did not say how many parents it was interviewed or where they were located.

Children’s safety campaigns for years have been asking for social media companies to make their platforms more favorable to children, and while progress is slow, Meta recognition that teens need different protection from adults to the extent they need a different type of account is an important breakthrough. Other platforms have followed the costume, with Tiktok presents new parental control Last month.