Facebook to restrict ad targeting of under 18s.
The change means advertisers will soon be able to target under-18s only by age, gender, or location on Facebook, its messenger service, and its Photo-sharing platform Instagram. Also, a Facebook spokesperson said there would be no changes to the user data The company collects. Facebook will stop allowing the ad to target people under 18 on its platforms based on Their interests or their activity on other sites, it said on Tuesday in a slew of announcements about young users.
Instagram users under 16 years old
Instagram users under 16 years old will also start to default to having a private account when they join The platform, the company said, to stop unwanted contact from adults. They will still be given the option, however, to switch to a public account and current users can keep their account public. Facebookâs approach to users has been in the spotlight after US lawmakers and attorneys general slammed its Leaked plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under 13, Earlier this year a group of more than 40 state Attorneys general wrote to CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him to ditch the idea. the company said on Tuesday It was working on an Instagram experience for teens. It has been said the idea of a youth-focused app is to provide Parents with greater transparency and control over what younger children who want to access Instagram are doing.
