At the end of July, Facebook confirmed the loud rumor that it was Instagram Kids, a version of Instagram for kids that he planned to launch in the next few months. It seems that the scandal generated last week after the leaked reports of the platform itself pointing out that this platform negatively affected young people, has been partly to blame for this decision.
Facebook has announced that temporarily suspend Instagram Kids to focus on creating parental supervision tools and trying to convince policy makers of the rationale behind this platform. Yesterday, Monday, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram published an interesting statement.
In this statement, Mosseri affirms that the idea of Instagram is to allow those under 13 years of age to have a safe experience on the platform and aims to address a major problem in the industry, which is none other than minors. falsify their ages to download and use applications for those over 13 years old.
We firmly believe that it is better for parents to have the option of giving their children access to a version of Instagram designed for them - in which parents can monitor and control their experience - than to rely on the ability of an app to verify the age of children who are too young to have an ID.
According to Mosseri, the stoppage of this project is to allow time to work with parents, experts, policy makers and regulators to listen to their concerns and demonstrate the value and importance of this project for teens.
Criticized from the start
Instagram Kids has been the subject of much criticism from Facebook, and in May a letter from the attorneys general of 44 states urged Facebook to reconsider and abandon the plan entirely.
It was claimed to be a potential danger to the mental health of younger users "Who are not prepared to face the challenges of having an account on social networks."
In August, Facebook began forcing Instagram users to add your date of birth, as part of their move to implement parental controls later.
