Snapchat to bring Family Center, offers deeper insights for parents on teen safety

To secure the platform from predators, Snapchat has introduced a new Family Center feature, which promises to offer more control for parents to monitor their underage children's activities on the social media platform.

With 943 million plus monthly active users, Snapchat is one of the most used social media platforms, particularly popular among teens around the world. It also gets unwanted attraction from predators to prey on adolescent users.

To secure the platform from such threats, Snapchat has introduced a new Family Center feature, which promises to offer more control for parents to monitor their underage children's activities on the platform.

As the name suggests, the Family Center will be a one-stop tab for caretakers to view how much time their children spend on Snapchat. It also offers specific inputs on which feature they were more active, such as Chatting, using the camera, checking out Snap Map (to see where the friends are), Spotlight (a short videos platform), and Stories (status updates).

Family Center offers insights on time spent by child on each feature of Snapchat.

Also, there is a new friend connection context feature. When a teen adds a new friend, parents can see trust signals such as mutual friends, contact book indicators, and shared communities to better understand how the connection was made.

Family Center offers details on their child's new friend connections

If a parent sees the new friend they aren’t familiar with, they have the information and can talk to the child whether to continue chatting with the new friend or end the connection.

In Family Center, parents can view recent conversation between their child and the new friend on Snapchat.

And, the Family Centre also houses safety and educational videos. This offers a guide for parents and caregivers get started with Family Center and better understand the available safety tools.

In a related development, Meta-owned Instagram has launched a dubbing and lip-syncing feature to five Indian languages, such as Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi.

Also, Meta announced new Indian language fonts for the Edits app. With this, users will now be able to style their text and captions with Devanagari and Bengali-Assamese scripts, in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Assamese.

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