Meta keeps an eye on children’s online activity, launches new tools for Instagram-Facebook

New Delhi: In today’s digital age, it has become very common for children to get smartphones in their hands at an early age. But along with this, the concern of parents about what their children are seeing on social media has also increased. What kind of content is coming in their feed and who are they talking to.

Made more advance

To overcome this major problem of parents, leading tech company Meta has made its ‘Parental Supervision Tools’ for Instagram and Facebook more advanced than ever. Through these new features, parents will now be able to control the online activities of their children.

Content pattern will be visible with screen time

The biggest feature of this new update of Meta is that now parents will not only see how long the child is using the phone. They will also be able to track their content patterns. With the help of the new ‘Interest Insights’ tool, parents will be able to see what types of reels, videos or posts are appearing frequently in their child’s feed. Apart from this, parents will also get information about which topics their children are adding to Instagram’s algorithm.

minute-by-minute details

For this, the leading tech company Meta has made its ‘Parental Supervision Tools’ for Instagram and Facebook more advanced than ever. Now through this centralized dashboard, parents will get real-time information about which new people their child has recently followed or which unknown user has started following them.

very easy to keep track of

This will make it very easy to keep an eye on the increasing contact with suspicious or unknown people and children will be safe from problems like online fraud or cyber bullying.

Notification speed will stop at night

To prevent the bad effects of social media on children’s mental health and sleep, Meta has also added a special time-limit feature. Under this, after a certain period of time at night, the notifications coming from the app will automatically become silent. Its aim is to curb children’s habit of watching screens till late night so that they can avoid social media addiction.