BUtterfield 8 41,816 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13, according to an internal company post obtained by BuzzFeed News. “I’m excited to announce that going forward, we have identified youth work as a priority for Instagram and have added it to our H1 priority list,” Vishal Shah, Instagram’s vice president of product, wrote on an employee message board on Thursday. “We will be building a new youth pillar within the Community Product Group to focus on two things: (a) accelerating our integrity and privacy work to ensure the safest possible experience for teens and (b) building a version of Instagram that allows people under the age of 13 to safely use Instagram for the first time.” Current Instagram policy forbids children under the age of 13 from using the service. Source Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToxicHot 6,444 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 So unnecessary. I think it’s sad how kids are being encouraged to use social media. dOnT sAd ReAcT mE 2 bE sHaDy i WiLL RePoRt U!!1! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gypsy101 5,453 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 weird. sounds like a bad idea that pedophiles and child molesters will use Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindblown 6,744 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Can you imagine having instagram as a child????? No, that's so toxic omg. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
homomo 23,883 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Tbh, this shouldn’t be a thing. It would NEED to be heavily monitored by both parents and the creators of the platform. Unless of course they go the Nintendo route, and don’t allow any type of direct messaging, and only pre-programmed comments built in. I feel each photo would need to be reviewed before it went up though. 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyniildisk 12,689 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 they obviously will fill it w ads to make the kids even more consumist than they already are Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah H 4,375 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 This absolutely should not happen. Kids under 13 should be staying well away from social media Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmebuddy 573 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 absolutely not, I can’t think of one good reason for this, other than for the company to make money totally stream "love can't save me now" by it's me, buddy :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 What could possibly go wrong Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 116,991 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Right, definitely only 13 yers old and below will signed up there, cos people will play by rules. Definitely there will be no molesters pretending to be one of them at all. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ᶠʳᵒⁿᵗ ᵗᵒʷᵃʳᵈ ᵉⁿᵉᵐʸ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 78,870 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 am I the only one who thinks it's a good idea lmao It's not like bc the rules say "13+" that only people 13+ are on social media, they're already online Literally me, 9yo in 2006, was online all the time lmao and this is for them! All profiles private, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
President Biden 5,898 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 46 minutes ago, Sarah H said: This absolutely should not happen. Kids under 13 should be staying well away from social media *15 imo I got drunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarstruckIllusion 53,562 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 My childhood was great. I spent it playing with other kids, outside. My teen years were social media based. A very much flop era in comparison. This idea ✨ bad ✨ Plus they don’t realize tweens don’t like tween-centric things. Did we all forget how cool it was to as adult like as possible? This is about to tank so hard... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 31,085 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 No more BTS fans on Insta to trashtalk under Gaga's pics! It's a win for us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromatic puzea 10,653 Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 i feel like this could help in some ways cause kids in the newer generation are probably going to have instagram before 13 regardless of whether it's the kids or adult one but i would assume and hope that the kids one has more advanced protection and saftey features however, this is still encourage people to use social media at a young age which can become very toxic also they're definitely going to try and capitalize off of this with way more ads than we get hard to even fathom which parts you should believe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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