An Instagram version will allow uploading photos but with limited options for children. With it, minors cannot be stalked by adults.
With the high rate of access to social networks, and with less and less access to social networks, there is a lot of concern about children's access to social networks such as Instagram. Instagram is one of the ways children have to contact their friends and classmates. school, and Facebook wants to create a version that is a safe space.
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Children under 13 can use Instagram safely
According to Buzzfeed, an internal Facebook post has given the news that they are preparing the option that if a minor up to 13 years old wants to create an account, access a version of Instagram with limitations. It would be a version of Messenger Kids, in which communications are limited.
Faced with the idea that an adult with bad intentions wants to use that version of Instagram to stalk minors and lies when entering their age, the app will use its algorithm to detect patterns and behaviors that reveal if it is an adult. This build for minors will be accompanied by other ways to protect minors on the network. Instagram will not allow minors to receive messages from adults who do not follow them, and searches in the app will make it more difficult to find minors.
The issue of the safety of minors on Instagram is important to Facebook. Instead of forbidding them access, they understand that they cannot systematically deny them access and they have to make the social network a safe space. A study states that just over half of Australian adolescents use Instagram, and it is an audience that Facebook is interested in collecting data and advertising.
Source: Msn.com
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