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Meta's has been listening to some concerns after all especially now after some pressure.
These changes very well could help parents moderate their teens. Meta's head of product says these changes address particular 3 concerns in an Npr interview.
Will this be the end of the complaints and concerns geared towards Instagram, probably not.
...as private as an Instagram account can be, anyway.
I’m glad nearly every word in this image is highlighted so I’d know what to read.
(I’m just joshin’)
HI JUST JOSHIN I'M WOGI
I think it's an AI summary (if you read just the highlighted part)
It's not an ai summary because if it was the wording would had been different from the article. The content featured in the screenshot is from the article and I manually draw attention to parts I am interested in and also to narrow things down. I started highlighting instead of redacting just so people wouldn't say i'm censoring.
For those who think it's an ai summary idk what to tell you.
Seriously what is this crap
How are they going to identify who are teens?
Meta said it was fully expecting many teenagers would try to evade the new measures.
"The more restrictive the experience is, the stronger the theoretical incentive for a teen to try and work around the restriction," Mr Mosseri said.
In response, the company is launching and developing new tools to catch them out.
Instagram already asks for proof of age from teenage users trying to change their listed date of birth to an adult one, and has done since 2022.
Now, as a new measure, if an underage user tries to set up a new Instagram account with an adult date of birth on the same device, the platform will notice and force them to verify their age.
In a statement, the company said it was not sharing all the tools it was using, "because we don't want to give teens an instruction manual".
"So we are working on all these tools, some of them already exist … we need to improve [them] and figure out how to provide protections for those we think are lying about their age," Mr Mosseri said.
The most stubborn category of "age-liars" are underage users who lied about their age at the outset.
But Meta said it was developing AI tools to proactively detect those people by analysing user behaviour, networks and the way they interact with content.
Wait, There are Teens who don't private their accounts? That's wierd.
They have an account their parents can see and private accounts
Not really, teenagers naturally want to socialize. It's pretty normal. Is it the best thing? no.
Social media companies, adult websites, whatever, can try to find ways to block children from accessing their content, but kids will always find a way around it.
It's the parents' responsibility to control their children. I've said 1000 times, children don't need access to smartphones and tablets. A desktop PC or laptop with strict parental controls is adequate enough for school work, learning about technology, and some basic entertainment.
When a child is old enough to work and pay for a smartphone themselves, then they're old enough to have a smartphone. A prepaid flip phone with basic voice and SMS is more than enough for a 15-year-old.
but kids will always find a way around it.
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A desktop PC or laptop with strict parental controls is adequate enough
You made an infinite loop and the process has hung.
the children will find away around it, but it is adequate
As a user of bionic reading, wtf did you do to your text
Yeah, I'm not sure. People are calling it highlighting, but it doesn't fit any reasonable pattern to have been manually highlighted. Is there some sort of bad automated highlighting? Or just someone still learning what highlighting is even used for. Or is it just some sort of style thing?
It's highlighting, what's wrong with that? I thought it was an improvement from my earlier posts where I was blocking out filler to narrow down the article.
I highlight the parts I want to read if I were to revisit the article, to narrow it down and save time. Could be useful for users too who just want to get the story and not read a lot of filler.
Yeah, you don’t need to put this much effort in. Bold/highlight one key thing for emphasis at most. Maybe two.
It doesn't take much time or effort to do. If I highlight one or two things, then when I read it again, I'l have to gasp read through a good portion of the article again.
Sometimes there is more then just two things to highlight.
You’re still overthinking it, and my reply. It’s ok tho. Game recognize game.
is it still highlighting when everything is highlit?
That's... a good thing. Tzuky? Are you ok?
Trying to avoid regulations of course.
Yeah! I love effective regulations!
Only effective if this doesn't placate the regulators and Congress and something is actually done.
This has all happened before and it will all happen again. This is what it looks like when a social media company tries to head off an incoming regulatory push.
At least it’s a step in the right direction. Especially since they’ve been extremely evil when it comes to teens. Tho I’m sure they’ll figure out how to continue to be evil with these restrictions/guidelines in place.
“If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you jump off too?”
Glad we found the answer to that parental koan.
Only took them 14 years, lol
They know their network is harmful to teens for years now, I wonder why NOW they are finally doing something about it?
