Instagram New Update Gives Young Users More Safer And Private Experience.

Young Users will now have default Private Account on Instagram.

After making adults fond of it, Now Instagram is ruling among the teens too. Recently it has been seen that many teenage influencers have come upon this platform and kids are now keeping themselves engaged in Instagram reels. Keeping in mind a good, safe experience for kids, Social media platform Instagram has announced on Tuesday that it will start defaulting users under age 16 to private accounts.

Instagram has stated in its statement "Creating an experience on Instagram that’s safe and private for young people, but also fun comes with competing challenges. We want them to easily make new friends and keep up with their family, but we don’t want them to deal with unwanted DMs or comments from strangers. We think private accounts are the right choice for young people, but we recognize some young creators might want to have public accounts to build a following." This new feature will be applied to all new accounts that will be created from now onwards, and Instagram has requested to all its existing under age 16 users make their accounts private.

This new update includes the changes like :

• Defaulting young people into private accounts.

• Making it harder for potentially suspicious accounts to find young people.

• Limiting the options advertisers have to reach young people with ads.

This change intends to keep teenagers away from unwanted content and promote privacy by letting teens choose people they want to interact with, control who sees or responds to their content. The platform made the move partly based on recent research that showed eight in 10 young users preferred more private settings and discouraged unwanted contact from adults. 

Moreover, For young people who already have a public account on Instagram, they show them a notification highlighting the benefits of a private account and explaining how to change their privacy settings. Instagram still gives young people the choice to switch to a public account or keep their current account public if they wish.