Facebook-owned Instagram launches Parents’ Guide in Telugu

The Parents Guide is a resource from Instagram, available across many countries, to provide parents with a better understanding of the changing digital landscape.

Hyderabad: In order to teach parents about safe use of Instagram, the social networking platform has launched a Parents’ Guide in Telugu for people across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to learn from. The guide is aimed at helping young people be safe, by informing parents about all the safety features that exist on the platform.

The Parents Guide is a resource from Instagram, available across many countries, to provide parents with a better understanding of the changing digital landscape. It acts as a conversation starter with their children, as it provides information about tools that exist to keep their child safe on Instagram. The guide has inputs from key organisations working actively on the rights and safety of children like Center for Social Research, CyberPeace Foundation, Aarambh India Initiative, Young Leaders for Activity Citizenship, It’s Ok To Talk and Suicide Prevention India Foundation.

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It includes information on all the new safety features on Instagram, such as ‘DM reachability controls’, which gives creator and business accounts the control to choose who can message them on Instagram and who can add them to groups on Instagram Direct. Another is ‘Bulk comment management’, which gives people the option to delete comments in bulk, as well as block or restrict multiple accounts that post negative comments.

Tara Bedi, Public Policy and Community Outreach Manager for Instagram in India, said, “As we spend more time online, especially young people, it is important for parents to be well informed about the products and features that are used by their children. This is what we’re aiming to accomplish with the Parents Guide for Instagram.”

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