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How to make Instagram safe for children
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How to make Instagram safe for children

Is Instagram Safe For Kids?

Safes Content Team

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    Whenever you see a child or teenager taking selfies, alone or with a group of friends, you can be highly sure that it will be uploaded on Instagram. Children and teenagers love this app because all their friends are there, they can keep up with celebrities’ lives, they can meet new people and most importantly they can present themselves in the way they want to their friends and strangers.

    With over a billion monthly active users, Instagram is currently the most popular social media app. As of October 2021, 8% of Instagram users are between 13 and 17 years old. This makes it vital to consider: is Instagram safe for kids?

     

    What parents need to know about Instagram

    The first thing parents need to know is that like any other social media platform, Instagram was built to be addictive. It aims to attract as many people as possible and keep them as long as possible. However, screen time is not the only problem that should concern parents.

    On Instagram, everyone with an account can share and view pictures and videos and everyone can send direct messages to each other. This means children can meet and interact with any kind of people on this platform.

     

    Why Instagram is a dangerous playground

    • Cyberbullying: Unfortunately, Instagram has the highest rate of cyberbullying on the internet. according to a Pew survey, 59% of teenagers get cyberbullied on Instagram. Cyberbullying on Instagram can happen in the form of harassment, shopping scams, identity theft, body shaming, stalking, racism…
    • Emotional effects: Instagram can be harmful to the mental health of teenagers especially teenage girls as it promotes certain body images, styles and the comparison can damage a child’s self-esteem and make them anxious and depressed, feeling the pressure to fit into whatever concept Instagrammers and influencers decide to trend.
    • Privacy issues: like other similar apps and websites, Instagram collects information about users, also teenagers tend to overshare by recording their daily routine and publishing it on Instagram. Predators, stalkers, and phishing scammers can take advantage of them.

     

    How to secure Instagram for children

    All the risks mentioned above make it necessary to think about some ways to keep your children’s activities under control. Here are some suggestions from Safes team:

    • Private account: ensure your child is using a private account and their followers are all the people you know and approve.
    • turn off location sharing: tagging the location in each post make it easy for predators and stalkers to track the child’s location. Ask your child to never tag their location in their posts or stories.
    • Monitor: Safes app let you monitor the people your child follows and what pages they visit.
    • Block content: Safes family notifies you when your child searches for or comes across previously defined subjects and content that you find inappropriate.
    • Limit the time spent on Instagram: Safes also gives you this opportunity to set a limited amount of time that your child can spend on Instagram. When the set time is ended, the app will be closed.
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    Download Safes Kids for Chrombook

    1. Install the Safes Kids app on your Chromebook from Google Play. 
    2. Pair Safes Kids with parent app. Follow the instructions in the app to pair your child’s device with your parent device.  
    3. Add the Safe Kids Chrome extension. Open Chrome and go to the Chrome Web Store. 
    4. Navigate to the Manage extensions page. Click the three dots in the top right corner of Chrome and select “Extensions”>”Manage Extensions”>”Details”
    5. Turn on “Allow in incognito mode” This will allow the Safe Kids extension to work in incognito mode, which is important if your child uses incognito mode to try to bypass the parental controls.
    6. Select Safes extension and follow on-screen instruction

    Download Safes Kids for Android

    Download the Android Kid’s app directly to get the full features!

    Download Safes Kids App on Play Store

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    Safe Kids is available on the Google Play Store, but if you download it directly from our website, you will get access to Call and SMS monitoring feature, You can monitor the phone calls of your child’s device, as well as the contacts and messages they have sent and received, including those containing inappropriate content.