Pinterest to introduce new teen safety features to protect users’ personal space

San Francisco: Pinterest, a social media picture-sharing platform, announced that it will be introducing new features for teen safety. These features include increased control over your followers, expanded private profiles, enhanced options for working with people you know, and an easy way for parents to enable and disable a parental passcode for their teens.

According to the business, the features will start to go out this week.

With the expanded private profiles feature, users aged 16 and over will be able to opt into a private or public profile.

"Once private, you will 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," Pinterest said in a blog post on Monday.

Another teen safety feature will provide users with even more control over who gets to follow them.

For teens under the age of 16, followers will be removed so that they can decide who gets to follow them and only collaborate with people they trust.

In addition, all users will be able to review and remove followers.

Moreover, the company is enabling more ways to help users make decisions about who can and can not contact them.

Now, 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 three days or when they get five new followers with the shareable link, whichever comes first, according to the company.

Under the new updates, the company will be providing parents and caregivers with the ability to easily opt in and out of the parental passcode and update the protected settings on their teen’s account.

With inputs from IANS