{"id":13493,"date":"2021-10-12T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:27:42","slug":"facebook-unveils-new-controls-for-kids-using-its-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/facebook-unveils-new-controls-for-kids-using-its-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Unveils New Controls For Kids Using Its Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook revealed plans to introduce new features, including one that encourages teenagers to take a break while using Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be new controls for adults of teenagers who give parents or guardians the privilege of knowing what their teens are doing online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made by Facebook&#8217;s vice president for global affairs, Nick Clegg, during the rounds of various Sunday news shows. He explained in one of his interviews, &#8220;We are constantly iterating to improve our products. We cannot, with a wave of the wand, make everyone&#8217;s life perfect. What we can do is improve our products, so that our products are as safe and as enjoyable to use.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company has invested $13 billion in recent years to better secure the platform, with 40,000 employees actively working on the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/10\/1044917871\/facebook-instagram-safety-controls-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in NPR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook revealed plans to introduce new features, including one that encourages teenagers to take a break while using Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13524,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}