Keeping children safe in the online world of social media platforms

Control options that apps and platforms have already put in place can help shield children, and ourselves, from perils such as unwanted images and sextortion scammersSmartphones are a great window on to the world but parents do not want children exposed to some of the more negative elements it has to offer. Photograph: iStock

“While people overwhelmingly use DMs to share what they love with their friends, family or favourite creators, sextortion scammers may also use private messages to share or ask for intimate images,” Meta said. “To help address this, we’ll soon start testing our new nudity protection feature in Instagram DMs, which blurs images detected as containing nudity and encourages people to think twice before sending nude images.

TikTok also has a Family Pairing option that can be used to monitor older teens, from their time spent on the platform to managing privacy settings.Apple’s Screen Time controls allow parents to restrict or monitor everything their child does on their Apple device, from in-app purchases to downloading media content and reducing the amount of time you can spend on certain categories of apps each day.

That detection works not only for those being received and viewed, but also for material that is being sent from your child’s phone. While Apple won’t prevent young people from sending intimate messages, it will offer age-appropriate guidance and resources to help them make a safer choice. To turn on the Sensitive Content warning on an iPhone or iPad, go to settings and choose Privacy & Security. Scroll down to find the Sensitive Content Warning option, and turn it on. You can leave it on all supported services by default, or turn it on and off for those you feel necessary.Android has a host of parental controls that can be used to block out inappropriate content for underage users. It is all controlled through the Family Link app, which is available on both Android and iOS.

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