Connection time limit and access to the list of subscribers will be available in France by the end of June.
The question torments many parents: what do teenagers do during the long hours spent on Instagram? The social network wants to help them better track these activities through parental controls. He announced on June 14 the availability of new surveillance tools by the end of the month.
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Concretely, the parents (or guardians) will be able to make a request for supervision of the account of their child, this one will however be free to accept or refuse. Once the monitoring right is granted, the supervisor is free to set daily limits of usage time. It can also prohibit the use of the social network during certain time slots, for example, at night or during lessons. Parental control also makes it possible to know the people followed by the teenager and to know who is subscribed to his account.
The parent will also receive a notification if their child reports an account, they will also know the reason for the alert.
A “toxic” network for young people
The social network has still placed limits on its tool. Parental controls do not allow you to view liked or commented content, nor to read private messages. In addition, one month before the user turns 18, parent and child will receive a notification warning of the imminent end of the feature.
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These tools, deployed in France within a few weeks, were already available in the United States. For the subsidiary of the Meta group, the question of the protection of adolescents is very political today. Last October, the whistleblower and ex-employee of the group Frances Haugen violently criticized the laxity of the group on this aspect.
Documenting it, she revealed that the Meta group knows that Instagram is “toxic for teenage girlsbut does nothing to fix the problem. The management of the groupchoose profit over safetyfrom its users, according to the whistleblower.