Even Instagram, like others social network, is trying to make an effort to make the online life of young people safer: the latest news concerns the management of the account, which from this week will be private by default for anyone who creates a new one and is under 18 years old (in Italy , less than 16 in other countries).
According to what has been explained, the purpose is “prevent young people from being contacted by adults they do not know or from which they do not want to be contacted ”and“ private accounts are the best way to prevent situations of this type ”. In fact, private accounts allow people to control who views their content or responds, and only followers can see or comment post, Story and Reel; also, Stories and Reel of private accounts do not appear in the section Explore or in search results for hashtags.
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From Instagram they reported that a recent poll showed that younger people would prefer this type of experience: 8 out of 10 accepted the private account as the default when signing up. As for young people who already have a (public) account on Instagram, they will be shown a notification explaining the advantages of a private account and how to change their privacy settings in this regard; obviously there is no obligation: the younger ones can still switch to a public account or keep it that way if they already have it.
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David Kleeman, one of the vice presidents of Instagram, said that “although many platforms provide a minimum age of 13 to sign up (the reference is likely to TikTok, ed), often at that age there is no complete media literacy “and that” the private account as the default setting for children under 16-18 encourages young people to develop awareness, self-confidence and skills as digital citizens and allows you to develop habits that last a lifetime ”.
According to the social network of images, that is part of the Facebook galaxy, the promotion of private accounts among young people would be an important step to “avoid unwanted contact with some adults” and to make it increasingly difficult for these adults to find the accounts of young people: “We have developed a new technology that allows us to identify accounts that have exhibited potentially suspicious behavior (understood as the accounts of adults who have been blocked or reported by young people, ed), to prevent them from interacting with the accounts of young people “. Thanks to this technology, “we will not show these people the accounts of young people in Explore, in Reels o in Suggested Accounts“; more: “In the event that they still manage to trace the accounts of young people by looking for their username, they will not be able to follow them and they will not be able to see their comments under other people’s posts or comment on their posts ”.
The application of this technology is currently limited to accounts in the United States, in Australia, France, United Kingdom e Japan, but will soon arrive in other countries too, Italy including.
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