New Instagram feature allows parents to monitor their children's activities, limit screen time on app

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SINGAPORE — To protect teenagers from online harms on Instagram, parents will from Friday (Sept 16) be able to use a new feature to monitor their children’s activities on the social media platform and limit their screen time, provided the children agree.

Announcing this on Thursday, Instagram's parent company Meta, said the new Family Centre feature is “going to complement a lot of conversations that are happening today in many families".

Parents will also receive weekly notifications about who their children is following, or who has followed their children. Mr Chua said that the feature was designed after nine months of consultations with experts, parents, guardians and teens around the world. “There has to be a balance here that respects teens fundamentally so that they can be part of this process,” he added.

These moves come amid a renewed focus in the past few years on the online harms that minors could face online. “My mom was my first friend on all my social media. All the way from the start, she was my first friend, so I couldn't hide anything”

 

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