Dear Parents, Snapchat strengthens the safety of your children 👻🦸🏾‍♂️

Cliquez ici pour lire en français

Social platforms are often accused of not protecting their youngest users enough or at all. But most of them are making efforts in this area in recent months. This is the case of Snapchat, which launches Content Controls. The feature arrives in the Parental Center, launched last year on the platform, and allows parents to better protect their children on the social network to the ghost.

What to know about « Content Controls » 🤔?

Snapchat is enhancing its Family Center with a new feature. It was introduced last year (read our article on the subject) to offer parents or legal guardians of underage users tools to see who their teens are communicating with on the app. The family center will now offer them the possibility to control the type of content they can watch on the social network.

Source: Snapchat

Specifically, this new feature called « Content Controls » will allow them to prevent their children from being exposed to content identified as [potentially] sensitive or suggestive (images of a sexual nature or showing violence).

Once the feature is enabled, teens will no longer see this type of content in Stories and on Spotlight, the section highlighting short, funny videos. Activating this filter will not impact content shared in chats, snaps and search.

The Content Control Policy: Long live transparency📱🤗

Snapchat unveils content outlines to provide Stories and Spotlight creators with additional information about the types of posts recommended on the site.

As a reminder, the company already prohibits the posting of content that promotes terrorism, violent extremism, harassment, bullying, criminal actions, harmful false or misleading information and hate speech on its platform. But with the new rules, the platform will be able to better classify information as « sensitive » and perhaps prevent younger users from accessing it.

« While our Community Guidelines outline the types of content and behaviors that are strictly prohibited across our whole platform, we set an even higher bar for the public content that is suggested to Snapchatters on Stories or Spotlight. » the social network shared.

While Snapchat has always shared these guidelines with creators as part of the Snap Stars program and with its media partners, the app is now making them available to everyone to

« offer greater transparency into the stronger standards we set for public-facing content and into our eligibility requirements for distribution »

She hopes these new tools and guidelines will help parents, caregivers, adults and teens personalize their social network experience and have productive conservations about their online experiences.

Do you think that this tool will only serve to restrict the type of content or curb the curiosity of young people?

Sources : Snapchat, Clubic