Instagram is making kids’ accounts safer. Why aren’t all social media networks doing the same?
Understanding Online Privacy | The Parent Network: Social Media and Your Kids
Instagram’s new rules make the accounts of children under 18 private by default and limit ads to those accounts. Advertisers can only target children based on age, gender and location, and if adult Instagram users exhibit “potentially suspicious” behavior, they will be blocked from interacting with teen accounts.
This seems like the kind of basic child protection that should be part of all social networks. But as with everything on the internet, it's never that simple.
“It’s encouraging to see Facebook making changes to protect the privacy of users under the age of 16. It’s a step all social networks should take,” Vlad Davidiuk, a public policy and government policy analyst, told Lifewire via email.
