Pinterest has introduced some new privacy features, including Pinterest safety tools for teens, which are specifically designed to better protect younger users, including private profiles, mutual messaging restrictions, and updated controls over who can follow you in the app.
In the words of Pinterest –
“Once private, you’ll still be able to connect with your friends and family by sending a unique profile link. Private profiles are not discoverable by others on the platform and will remain the default and only option for teens under the age of 16.”
Earlier this year, Pinterest announced that the profiles of all users aged 16 and under would be made private by default, and would not be able to be switched to ‘public’. It’s now softening that stance for users 16 and up, though teens under 16 will still only be able to have a private account.
That means that any teens who’ve built a following in the app will have some work to do to curate their audience, but it will ensure that teens have better knowledge of who’s able to engage with their Pins.
Pinterest is also instituting new parameters for messaging and group board invites for teens:
“Teens under the age of 16 will only be able to send and receive messages from mutual followers who have been accepted through a unique profile link that expires after 3 days or when they get 5 new followers with the shareable link, whichever comes first.”
Parental passcode update
Parents and caregivers can already opt to require a passcode to change certain account settings for their teens. We are giving caregivers the ability to easily opt-in and out of the parental passcode and update the protected settings on their teen’s account.
Pinterest Safety Tools For Teens have been rolled out globally.
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