Instagram is building a version of its app for preteens

Photo by Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash. Article by Rob Thubron. TechSpot – March 19, 2021.

The company says it will allow kids to “safely” use the platform

TL;DR: Instagram is developing a version of the social network for children under the age of 13. It’s hoped the move will help stop the common practice of young kids signing up for accounts on the main app by lying about their age.

BuzzFeed News reports that owner Facebook announced its plans for a preteens-only version of Instagram in an internal mail, allowing the age group to use the photo- and video-sharing app “safely” for the first time.

As with Facebook, Instagram doesn’t allow people under 13 to sign up for accounts, though plenty of young children ignore this policy. The company recently said it is developing new “artificial intelligence and machine learning technology” to detect someone’s age when they create an account, but it never revealed details of how this will work. […]

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