Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that give parents more control.
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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the “The Anxious Generation,” wrote in a post on X that he’s “cautiously optimistic about Meta’s new teen accounts.”
“It is the biggest and best step forward I have seen from them,” he wrote, later adding that “this is just a first step in reforming an ecosystem that badly needs a simpler, more robust way to identify minors and install real age gating, especially for those under 13.”