instagramMeta’s popular social network, continues to evolve to meet the needs of its users, especially now in the face of growing concern for the emotional and psychological well-being of young people in the face of the harassment on social networks.
For this reason, it has implemented a new update available for Android and IOS, which introduces improvements in the limitations section with two features focused on protecting young people from harassment on the platform, thus improving their privacy and security.
Thus the application incorporates new bounding and constraining functions that allow teenagers limit interactions on your posts to only your closest friends. This means that other followers will be able to comment or send messages, but these will not appear visible for the rest of the people. And also functions for restrict tags and mentions, so that users will be able to prevent restricted people from tagging or mentioning them and the comments of these people will be automatically hidden. These measures seek increase privacy and reduce the impact of harassmentan increasingly common problem on social networks.
To activate limited interactions, open your profile, go to the Settings Menu and select ““Limited Interactions”. Then choose the interactions you want to limit, likes, comments, tags or direct messages. And then select which people you want to limit, “all users except your best friends”, “recent followers” or “accounts that don’t follow you”. You can extend the limitations up to 4 weeks initially and when they have elapsed, you can extend the time.
Instagram’s recent update, which streamlines limit and restrict features, responds to growing concerns about online harassment. By giving teens more control over their interactions, Instagram is creating a secure digital environment. In a world where social media is an integral part of daily life, these measures are essential to ensure that everyone, especially young people, can enjoy a positive and safe experience online.
