Snap announces new safeguards for teenagers – AdNews

Snap Inc. has announced a package of safeguards to further protect 13-17 year old Snapchatters from potential online risks. These safeguards, which will begin rolling out in the coming weeks, are designed to protect teens from being contacted by people they may not know in real life, provide a more age-appropriate viewing experience on the app’s content platforms and enable Snapchat to more effectively remove accounts that may be trying to market and promote age-inappropriate content through a new strike system and new detection technologies.  Snap is also releasing new resources for families, including an updated parents guide that covers the platform’s protections for teens and tools for parents, and a new YouTube explainer series. Safer contact   Most teens use Snapchat to “chat” with their close friends using pictures and text, similar to how older generations use text messaging or phone calls. When a teen becomes friends with someone on Snapchat, the platform  is focused on ensuring that it is someone they know in real-life – such as a friend, family member or other trusted person. Building on this, Snapchat, Snapchat is launching a feature that sends a pop-up warning to a teen if they are contacted by someone they don’t share
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