![]() “This is a hollow ‘product announcement’ in the dead of night that will do little to substantively make their products safer for kids and teens.” “Meta is attempting to shift attention from their mistakes by rolling out parental guides, use timers, and content control features that consumers should have had all along, said Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee. Additionally, the app is exploring more ways to reduce the amount of potentially harmful or sensitive content that teens can discover on its network. Instagram said it’s testing a new setting that would limit people from tagging or mentioning teens who don’t follow them or to include their content in video reels. Teens also will be able to notify their parents if they report someone for violating the app’s rules. Teens will be able to give their parents or guardians permission to view how much time they spend on Instagram and to set time limits, according to the company. In March, the company also plans to launch a suite of tools aimed at giving parents more visibility into their teenagers’ use of the app. The company didn’t release any statistics about what percentage of people actually get off the app once they have received a reminder, but said once teenagers turn on the feature, more than 90% keep it on. Instagram announced in November that it had begun testing the take-a-break feature. state attorneys general announced an investigation into Instagram’s efforts to engage children and young adults. Some of the documents surfaced new revelations about Instagram’s impact on teenagers’ body image, sleep and anxiety. Instagram has been under mounting scrutiny over its effects on young users after a Wall Street Journal series earlier this year and other stories from a consortium of media organizations based on internal documents disclosed by Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen. ![]() Senate subcommittee probing childrens’ safety on social media. ![]() Instagram head Adam Mosseri is scheduled to appear Wednesday before a U.S. “You may not feel like you’ve been spending that much time on the app because you’ve been doing five or six different things in those 20 minutes.” “When you’ve been spending a long period of time - 20 minutes for example being a fairly long period of time - it is very valuable for you to then get a little notification reminding you to take a break,” she said. The platform will then remind users about alternative activities to social media such as going for a walk or taking a series of deep breaths, Instagram head of well-being and safety Vaishnavi J said in an interview. Users also can decide to be nudged to take a break after they have spent 10, 20 or 30 consecutive minutes on the app, Instagram said Tuesday in a blog post. Instagram will let people opt to see pop-up messages when they have spent a lot of time looking at a particular topic, suggesting they explore other subjects. Meta Platforms Inc.’s photo-sharing app Instagram is encouraging users to take a break as the company battles accusations that too much time spent on its social networks hurts the mental well-being of teenagers.
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