Instagram has announced a couple of crucial changes that it says will make the platform safer for minors. Firstly, the company says it will now require all new users to declare their birthdates when creating an account on the platform. In an official blog post on Wednesday, the Facebook-owned company said that the new policy will help prevent underage people from joining Instagram, thereby making it a safer place with more age-appropriate experiences overall.
Instagram has also announced a new feature to help users control who can send them direct messages on Instagram. This gives users the ability to allow only the people they follow to message them and add them to group threads. “People who enable this setting will no longer receive messages, group message requests or story replies from anyone they have not chosen to follow”, said the company.
