Teen Accounts

Instagram Teen Accounts have been introduced as the latest measure to safeguard young users on the platform. These Teen Accounts come with default-enabled protections, and only users over the age of 16 can modify the safety settings of their account. Additionally, parents or guardians can monitor who has messaged their teenagers in the past week an...

Instagram has introduced new safety measures to better protect underage users from online harm.

Meta Platforms is rolling out enhanced privacy and parental controls forInstagramaccounts of users under 18 in a significant overhaul aimed at addressing growing concerns around the negative effects of social media.

Google announced that it will be making its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini available to teen students soon, on Monday. So far, Gemini was only available to users above the age of 18. With this move, the tech giant is now letting students access the AI capability of its in-house large language model (LLM). The company said that the feat...

Social media users were outraged by the act, calling for an online campaign to get the teen's account blocked.

Meta has announced new restrictions to help protect teens from unwanted contact on Instagram and Facebook through stricter private message settings. Meta will enable fresh DM (direct messages) restrictions on both Facebook Messenger and Instagram for users aged under 18 years to prevent messages from people they do not follow.

In its blog post on Wednesday, Google said it was opening up access to Bard to teenagers in most countries around the world. “Teens in those countries who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account will be able to access Bard in English, with more languages to come over time,” Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Responsib...

The screenshot shows a message to Mr Quazi from LinkedIn about his account being "restricted" since he does not qualify for the minimum age requirement for the network.

The UOB account he opened was then allegedly used by scam syndicates to launder criminal proceeds of more than SGD 249,000.

Social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook, require users to be at least 13 years old to use their services. However, US surgeon general Vivek Murthy recently warned 13 is too young to join social media. It is worth noting that these apps and services do present some risks for younger people including bullying, misinformat...

TikTok algorithms boost posts related to self-harm and eating disorders, which are shown to vulnerable teenagers, a new report claims. Researchers created TikTok accounts for fictional teen personas in the US, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and liked videos about self-harm and eating disorders and saw that the algorithm recommended similar c...

Twitter was slammed by major advertisers like Dyson, Mazda, and Ecolab over the platform displaying their ads next to accounts and tweets related to child pornography. The companies said they have suspended or removed their ads from the microblogging service, after promotions for 30 brands ranging from Disney to Coca-Cola and NBC Universal to a chi...

After soaring to internet fame -- and drawing the ire of the world's richest person -- with his viral Twitter account "Elon's Jet," Sweeney is now tracking the planes of some of Russia's richest people.

Snapchat has announced changes to its Quick Add feature that will limit minors profiles from being shown to adults unless they have a certain amount of friends in common with them. The move is designed to prevent drug dealers from contacting minors on the app. The service also detailed other changes and steps it has taken to combat the spread of dr...

A 16-year-old boy ran away from home in the western suburb of Jogeshwari after his parents reprimanded him for allegedly spending Rs 10 lakh through online transactions for playing PUBG, police said on Friday.

Instagram Teen Accounts have been introduced as the latest measure to safeguard young users on the platform. These Teen Accounts come with default-enabled protections, and only users over the age of 16 can modify the safety settings of their account. Additionally, parents or guardians can monitor who has messaged their teenagers in the past week an...

Instagram has introduced new safety measures to better protect underage users from online harm.

Meta Platforms is rolling out enhanced privacy and parental controls forInstagramaccounts of users under 18 in a significant overhaul aimed at addressing growing concerns around the negative effects of social media.

Google announced that it will be making its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini available to teen students soon, on Monday. So far, Gemini was only available to users above the age of 18. With this move, the tech giant is now letting students access the AI capability of its in-house large language model (LLM). The company said that the feat...

Social media users were outraged by the act, calling for an online campaign to get the teen's account blocked.

Meta has announced new restrictions to help protect teens from unwanted contact on Instagram and Facebook through stricter private message settings. Meta will enable fresh DM (direct messages) restrictions on both Facebook Messenger and Instagram for users aged under 18 years to prevent messages from people they do not follow.

In its blog post on Wednesday, Google said it was opening up access to Bard to teenagers in most countries around the world. “Teens in those countries who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account will be able to access Bard in English, with more languages to come over time,” Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Responsib...

The screenshot shows a message to Mr Quazi from LinkedIn about his account being "restricted" since he does not qualify for the minimum age requirement for the network.

The UOB account he opened was then allegedly used by scam syndicates to launder criminal proceeds of more than SGD 249,000.

Social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook, require users to be at least 13 years old to use their services. However, US surgeon general Vivek Murthy recently warned 13 is too young to join social media. It is worth noting that these apps and services do present some risks for younger people including bullying, misinformat...

TikTok algorithms boost posts related to self-harm and eating disorders, which are shown to vulnerable teenagers, a new report claims. Researchers created TikTok accounts for fictional teen personas in the US, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and liked videos about self-harm and eating disorders and saw that the algorithm recommended similar c...

Twitter was slammed by major advertisers like Dyson, Mazda, and Ecolab over the platform displaying their ads next to accounts and tweets related to child pornography. The companies said they have suspended or removed their ads from the microblogging service, after promotions for 30 brands ranging from Disney to Coca-Cola and NBC Universal to a chi...

After soaring to internet fame -- and drawing the ire of the world's richest person -- with his viral Twitter account "Elon's Jet," Sweeney is now tracking the planes of some of Russia's richest people.

Snapchat has announced changes to its Quick Add feature that will limit minors profiles from being shown to adults unless they have a certain amount of friends in common with them. The move is designed to prevent drug dealers from contacting minors on the app. The service also detailed other changes and steps it has taken to combat the spread of dr...

A 16-year-old boy ran away from home in the western suburb of Jogeshwari after his parents reprimanded him for allegedly spending Rs 10 lakh through online transactions for playing PUBG, police said on Friday.