Can Instagram Really Keep Kids Safe?
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Instagram’s new default privacy settings for teenagers are designed to keep kids safe from strangers online. It’s a worthy endeavor, but are privacy settings enough? And what about all the other hazards teenagers face on social media?
Guest: Natasha Singer, New York Times tech reporter, focused on how technology is affecting childhood and schooling.
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| 1:03.0 | Go ahead. |
| 1:05.0 | Natasha covers how digital platforms are changing childhood and adolescents. |
| 1:10.0 | So let's say that I am 15 years old. I have an Instagram account. I have public settings and I have been posting and putting things on my stories, |
| 1:25.0 | looking at all sorts of stuff online. |
| 1:27.2 | What happens this week to my account? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, Instagram announced these significant privacy changes this week, in which they said they're going to make all the accounts of teens under 16, so 13, 14, 15 year olds, private by default. |
| 1:47.1 | The policy will start with any new accounts that kids under 16 sign up for. |
| 1:52.0 | Then over the course of the next 60 days Instagram will roll |
| 1:55.3 | this out for all kids under 16. Their accounts will be private by default. |
| 2:01.3 | Only your approved followers can see your posts, can like your posts, can |
| 2:06.8 | comment on your posts, and if you are a teen with hundreds of followers or |
| 2:11.4 | you're a teen influencer with thousands of followers and you're 14 or 15, |
| 2:16.0 | the public will not be able to see your posts and that's going to be a major change. |
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