Other than that, another safety feature would also send out reminders to teenagers that they need to take breaks because they’re been excessively using the app.
Such supervision features are going to be up for grabs across Meta’s Family Center. And if you happen to be located in the region of Canada, the US, and the UK- then such tools would be available for you sooner than others.
Tools like these are designed to allow guardians to witness both enhanced security as well as privacy in the settings. This would entail a list of changes across users’ list of contacts on their respective Messenger app and the amount of time taken on every single app.
Meanwhile, guardians would be getting more notifications regarding when teenagers report an individual they feel might be a nuisance. But for that to occur, the child needs to allow the notification to arise explicitly.
Parents will also be given the chance to search for settings including who can send texts to friends, their friend’s friends, or not even anyone involved. Similarly, they’ll be given the chance to see who may witness their stories as well. Such guardians would be notified immediately when or if any change in the settings tab was made or not.
In the last couple of years, a few Instagram users have taken out multiple steps to restrict interactions with teenagers that might be taking place with unknown individuals.
As a part of the latest move in this regard, the firm would request individuals that aren’t connected to someone, in particular, to reach out via invites and ask for the possibility of an interaction to occur.
Instagram mentioned how such invites are based solely on text only and this way, senders can put out a single one at any given time.
On the other hand, Facebook’s parent firm is also launching more control features to limit excessive usage and encourage others to take huge breaks if and when scrolling the app for too long.
During the start of this year, we saw the firm launch a ‘Quiet Mode’ feature that enabled users to put a limit on alerts as well as auto-replies for Direct Messages when and if taking breaks. At such moments in time, it’s going to be up for grabs to those in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland.
Today, the firm admits that the new Quiet Mode feature has been launched all around the globe.
For a while now, we’ve also been seeing Instagram busy with its own trials linked to taking breaks as it feels intermittent pauses are a health strategy to stop users from getting addicted to social media.
It arises in the form of a nudge after back-to-back usage for a designated period of time. So seeing Meta expand on this very feature and roll it on Facebook every 20 minutes is smart. In addition to that, the firm would be notifying teenagers who watch Reels during the later hours of the night to shut the app when the limit has been crossed.
We also know about the tech giant sent out notices to users on Instagram that ask them to enable guardians to oversee their activities for safety reasons. Therefore, parents would be given the chance to view in a mutual manner with accounts that teens follow and vice versa.
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by Dr. Hura Anwar via Digital Information World
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