Technology
Instagram is adding a bunch of new features to protect young people – i-D
Teens will no longer receive DMs from over 18s they don’t follow, and will receive an alert when an account they do follow is acting suspiciously.
In a new roll out of features, Instagram is adding a bunch of new protections to make the platform a safer space for teenagers. Over the course of the pandemic Instagram has seen a huge uptick in downloads (an over 23% increase) forecasting their total number of users to reach 1.074 billion, a number experts didnt think they would hit until 2024. While 30% of these users are Gen Z and nearly half are millennials, around 7% of the apps users are aged 13 – 17. But with so many people joining daily,…
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