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Meta will let teen accounts on Instagram see safety tips and blocking options when texting another user via DMs.

Highlights

🔹Teens will also see when the person texting joined Instagram

🔸Instagram is also adding a new ‘Block and report’ option in DMs

▫️Meta said its Safety Notice helped block accounts a million times in June

Meta introduced new safety features for teen accounts on Instagram on Wednesday. The Menlo Park-based social media giant said it is expanding its Teen Account protection and safety features to offer more tools to teenagers while they exchange messages with other users via the platform's direct messaging (DM) feature. With this, teenagers will be able to see when another user joined the platform, as well as a series of safety tips they should remember while talking to strangers.

Meta Brings New Safety Features for Teenagers on Instagram

In a newsroom post, Meta said the new features are part of the company's ongoing efforts to protect young people from direct and indirect harm, and to create an age-appropriate experience for them. The social media giant also highlighted that existing safety features such as Safety Notices, Location Notice, and Nudity Protection have helped millions of teenagers avoid harmful experiences on the platform.

Both of these new safety features are available in Instagram DMs. The first one will show teenagers safety tips when they are about to text another user, even if they both follow each other. These tips ask the teenager to check the other person's profile carefully, and that they “don't have to chat with them if something doesn't feel right.” It also reminds underage users to be mindful of what they share with others.

When sending a DM to another user for the first time, teenagers will see the month and the year that account joined Instagram at the top of the chat interface. Meta says this will help users with more context about the accounts they're messaging and let them easily spot potential scammers.

Source:gadgets360

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