Facebook will also have accounts for minors with more restrictions

In September 2024, Meta announced the arrival of some User accounts for Instagram designed to be used by minors With more privacy and restrictions, in an attempt to try to attract a greater number of users to a platform that, increasingly, suffers from moderation to disturbing content and that has made countries such as Australia already prohibit children under 16 years of age.

Now, the company will also expand its initiative to its other social network, Facebookand at the instant messaging service “Messenger“associated with it.

Facebook has long become a rather hostile place for those who simply used this social network to share images and other content with their friends and family. Today Mark Zuckerberg’s company forces to see publications of third -party pages and accounts, many times with hate messages, without that option can be eliminated, which makes Facebook a site with certain risks for minors.

The “Facebook and Messenger” adolescents “will be mandatory for all users between 13 and 15 years, and will offer restrictions and functions such as the supervision of the contents, communications and contacts by a tutor in charge.