The following podcast is a dear media production.

We talk a lot about different ways to parent on this podcast, of course.

And you know that one of the topics that comes up is teens and their relationship to social media.

And I want to introduce Instagram teen accounts to you because it's game-changing. Listen, I know that

it's exhausting to try to monitor all this, but I think Instagram's taken a really great step

in automating a set of protections for teens that they've built in to address parents' top

concerns. What I love about the Instagram teen accounts is that they were built to to address parents' top concerns. What I love about the Instagram

teen accounts is that they were built to give parents peace of mind to make sure that teens are

safer with the right protections in place, like making their profiles automatically private

by default, having automatic contact limits so they can be messaged only by people that are

already following them and they're

following and they're connected to and the content restrictions that place them into the most

restrictive settings and automatic filters for offensive comments or DMs. Look, this is a huge

issue and I actually really am trying to get to the heart of it. But what I know is that

we can't just say, we're not going to have it at all. Teenagers are going to be using social

media. So I really love that Instagram is taking a step to make it automatic and no extra

work on parents who are already exhausted. So I really want to encourage

you to take notice of what is going on in your teenagers' social media accounts and what protections

they have and note that Instagram is automatically doing it. So if they're on Instagram,

this is the requirement,

time limit reminders and sleep mode included. That means like they just now mute notifications

overnight between 10 and 7 a.m. And in terms of safety, Instagram teen accounts limit who can

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