Teen Safety Online: What Parents & Grandparents Need to Know
Over 50 & Flourishing with Dominique Sachse
Dear Media
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Raising teens in a digital world can feel overwhelming, especially when you didn’t grow up with social media yourself. In this episode of Over 50 & Flourishing, I’m joined by Antigone Davis, Meta’s Vice President and Global Head of Safety, for an important and reassuring conversation about teen safety, social media, and what parents and grandparents need to know in today’s digital world.
Antigone has spent her career focused on protecting children and young people. With a background in education and law, she now leads global safety efforts at Meta, working with experts, NGOs, and policymakers to create safer online experiences for teens and families.
Together, we talk honestly about the challenges parents face raising teens in a world of social media, smartphones, and AI. Antigone breaks down Meta’s teen safety tools, including built-in guardrails, parental supervision, time limits, and age-appropriate content, and explains how they are designed to support both connection and wellbeing. We also explore why teens may actually welcome boundaries more than we expect and how parents can start these conversations with confidence.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How teen accounts work on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger
- What the new 13+ content experience means for parents
- How parental supervision tools help without invading privacy
- Managing screen time, sleep, and late-night scrolling
- Social media’s impact on teen mental health
- What parents should know about AI and online safety
- How to create healthy digital boundaries through communication, not control
Resources:
- Instagram Teen Accounts —now inspired by 13+ movie ratings—are designed to give parents peace of mind that their teens are safer with the right protections in place. Learn more about Instagram Teen Accounts at https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/instagram-teen-accounts-pg-13-ratings/
- Support your family’s online experience with expert guidance and tools from Meta’s Family Center. Explore resources today, including Meta’s Screen Smart Program, at https://familycenter.meta.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to today's episode of Over 50 and Flourishing. |
| 0:16.9 | It's a bonus episode because this conversation matters, |
| 0:20.5 | especially if you're a parent, a grandparent, or just somebody who deeply cares about our children and how they and our teens are growing up online. |
| 0:28.6 | I am joined by Antigone Davis. She has met as vice president and global head of safety. |
| 0:34.2 | She has spent her entire career protecting children and helping families navigate the |
| 0:39.0 | digital world with more confidence and clarity. We are talking about meta's newest updates to |
| 0:44.9 | Instagram teen accounts, how AI safety is being handled for teens, and why side-by-side conversations, |
| 0:52.3 | not face-to-face lectures, can change everything. |
| 0:55.9 | This is such an important and timely conversation, and I am really, really glad you're here for it. |
| 1:04.9 | Hi, Antigone. It is so good to have you on over 50 and flourishing. I know I've got a lot of moms of teens. I've got |
| 1:12.4 | grandparents of teens and they are going to be really, really interested in hearing what you |
| 1:17.1 | have to say. So first of all, welcome and thanks for joining us today. Thank you. And I kind of wish |
| 1:22.3 | you had been around when I was raising my daughter for the exact same reason that these people |
| 1:27.0 | are listening now. |
| 1:28.2 | Yes. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. I mean, let's talk about you. Let's talk |
| 1:33.3 | about this initiative. And first, a little bit about your background. I mean, you have spent |
| 1:36.9 | a large chunk of your career protecting children. First, you've done it through education, |
| 1:41.8 | you've done it through law, now through technology. So what has it really inspired this? I think I can answer this question, but I want to |
| 1:49.2 | hear it from you. What has inspired your focus now for safety in the digital world? |
| 1:53.9 | It's an interesting question. What I would say is it's probably a little bit of circumstance |
| 1:59.0 | and then a little bit of a general kind of commitment |
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