We live in a world more connected than ever, where Internet access is not limited at all, which can be a problem for the youngest.And there are many teenagers who have a phone with Internet connection, in which of course they install all kinds of social networks such as Snapchat.
This is a serious problem at younger ages, since they are exposed to different kinds of hazards.That is why there are social networks that have been introducing certain functions in their application in order to protect these young people.
We have an example in one of the most popular, Instagram, which added not long ago a new function that allowed parents to establish limits of time of use, in addition to helping young people to take a break from the use of the networkSocial.Well now another popular application continues its steps by adding a new tool to protect young people between 13 and 17 years.
The arrival of Quick Add to Snapchat
Snapchat has made an announcement through its official blog that some changes will arrive soon to the application to protect young people from harassment, strangers and drugs.This new tool has received the name of Quick Add.
From now on, Snapchat users with an age between the ages of 13 and 17 will not receive suggestions from friends to other people, but this will depend on a certain number of friends in common.
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In the announcement published in the official blog you can read the following: “We have recently added a new safeguard to Quick Add, our function of friends suggestion, to even more protect young people from 13 to 17 years.In order to be discovered in Quick Add by another person, users under 18 will have to have a certain number of friends in common with that person - ensuring even more that he is a friend they know in real life. ”
A serious problem that happens on social networks is the ease with which drugs can be accessed, regardless of age.Snapchat received important complaints and demands to reinforce its application in the fight against drugs, since in the last two years, 8 minors lost their lives due to drug overdose, which seems to be supposedly acquired through the use of Snapchat.
This was what Snapchat wrote: “88% of the drug -related content we discover is now proactively detected by our automatic learning technology and artificial intelligence, and the rest is informed by our community.This represents an increase of 33% from our previous update.When we discover a drug trafficking activity, we quickly prohibit the account, we use the technology to block the offender and prevent new accounts in Snapcat and, in some cases, we proactively refer the account to the forces of the order to investigate it. ”
And Snapchat does not stop here, he is also working on new parental control functions so that they can keep control of the activities carried out by their children within the social network.As they have revealed, just a few months left for these new functions to be launched, since they have been working on them since the past fall.
"In the coming months, we will share more details about the new parental tools we are developing, with the aim of giving parents more information about who their teenage children speak in Snapchat, while respecting their privacy."
In addition to all these Snapchat functions to protect young people even more, the application has also presented others for the fun of its users.These have been the bitmoji reactions, chat responses, survey stickers and an improved call interface.
Without a doubt, excellent news for younger users, who can use Snapchat more safely.