Chip Chick
You know who they hang out with, but you won’t know the exact conversation or activities.
The new tool is an opt-in on both ends, meaning the teens would have to agree before the parents can operate the device—on their own Snapchat accounts.
It could be hard to set new boundaries when it comes to safety.
But by working on mutual agreements, Snapchat also hopes to protect its young users’ autonomy and privacy.
If parents sense any suspicious accounts approaching their kids, they can report those accounts to Snapchat’s Trust and Safety Team without alerting the child.
Through this feature, the tech company also hopes to raise awareness and encourage the topics of online safety between parents and teens.
Besides the parental way, Snapchat also launched a few new features to raise the protection of their teen users, based on the company’s website:
One: “By default, teens must be mutual friends before they can start communicating.”
Two: “Friend lists are private, and we don’t allow teens to have public profiles.”
Three: “And we have protections to make it harder for strangers to find teens. For example, teens only show up as a “suggested friend” or in search results in limited instances, like if they have mutual friends in common.”
Snapchat promises to keep updating its features for content control to serve its users and their preferred dynamics better.
