Instagram pushes youths to use safety initiatives, to avoid hacks, scams and cyberbullying

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Social media has become such an important part of many youth's lives. Whether they're busy keeping up with their favourite influencers and celebrities or sharing a slice of their life with voyeurs on Instagram, social media isn't always as fun and filled with heart-shaped emojis. In fact, hacking and investment scams are becoming a recurring event and cyberbullying is a...

Instagram is attempting to increase awareness of its current initiatives to build a safer space on the Internet for youths.Social media has become such an important part of many youth's lives. Whether they're busy keeping up with their favourite influencers and celebrities or sharing a slice of their life with voyeurs on Instagram, social media isn't always as fun and filled with heart-shaped emojis.are becoming a recurring event and cyberbullying is a tale as old as time.

Instagram also allows users to manually filter and choose to hide comments that contain specific words, phrases, numbers or emojis. If need be, users can also turn off comments entirely. Since Instagram can't control who users are allowed to reach out to, the platform has introduced 'Hidden Words'. Similar to filtering comments, 'Hidden Words' hides message requests and comments that contain offensive content. Likewise, users can create a custom list to hide certain words, phrases or emojis too.

To take things further, Instagram also has 'Limits'. 'Limits' temporarily limit unwanted comments and messages. Instagram will recommend groups of accounts that users may want to limit comments and messages from.

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