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Helping teens have positive connections

Discover tailored tools, insights and resources to guide your teen towards age-appropriate digital experiences on Facebook and Messenger.
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Introducing Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger

A new, protected experience for teens, guided by parents

Soon, teens on Facebook and Messenger will automatically be placed in Teen Accounts, which have updated settings that limit who can contact them and the content that they see. Teens under 16 will need parental permission to change these settings.
Learn more

FEATURES AND TOOLS

Foster positive online experiences with account features and tools

Enable your teen to confidently navigate the online connections that they're making by learning more about in-app features and tools.

Content and interactions

To keep our technologies safe from abusive behaviour, we monitor policy violations and have measures in place to keep abuse off our services. Settings to help you prevent unwanted contact include:
  • Blocking someone (on Facebook or Messenger) to prevent unwanted conversations or future interactions
  • Restricting people (on Facebook or Messenger) to limit the level of visibility and interaction that you have with certain people
  • Reporting of content or accounts that violate our guidelines and standards
Some protections are automatically enabled. With Teen Accounts, the following audience settings will automatically be set to Friends:
  • Who can see your future posts, stories or reels
  • Who can see your friends list
  • Who can see people, Pages and lists that you follow
  • Who can see posts that you're tagged in on your profile
  • Who can comment on your public posts
With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:
  • See who your teen's friends and contacts are
  • See who and what your teen has blocked
  • See who can message your teen or view their stories
  • See the people and Pages that their teen has blocked
  • See reported accounts that your teen shares with you

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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Guide to how we support age-appropriate experiences
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Talking to teens about healthy online interactions

Appropriate content

Meta has ensured that measures are in place to keep abuse off our apps and has developed standards for what is and isn't allowed. Safety features available for all accounts include:
  • Comment management letting you decide who is able to comment on your Facebook posts
  • Content filters filtering out any emojis, words or phrases that you (or the community) find offensive on your Facebook Page or post
  • Audience selector, allowing you to adjust your commenting audience and gain control of a conversation
  • Review tags to approve or dismiss Facebook posts that you are tagged in before they appear on your profile
Teen Accounts have additional layers of protection. These accounts will:
  • Automatically filter out more sensitive and potentially offensive content, so you see the content that's the most age-appropriate
With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:
  • See who your teen's friends and contacts are
  • See who and what your teen has blocked
For more information, read our full Community Standards.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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Digital wellness tips for parents

Time management

We encourage teens to manage their time on Facebook and Messenger by enabling them to create boundaries around their use. In an effort to help them manage time, we've implemented features, such as:
  • Your time on Facebook shows you the average time per day that you spend on Facebook
  • Daily reminders on Facebook allowing your teen to schedule daily limit alerts
  • Take a break notifications when they've spent 20 minutes on Facebook
Teen Accounts have additional default settings, including:
  • Notifications telling teens to close Facebook after 60 minutes each day
  • Sleep mode automatically turning on between 22:00 and 07:00, which will mute notifications overnight and display a reminder to close Facebook
With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:
  • See insights around their teen's use on each app
  • Set limits on daily use where the teen cannot access the app
  • Create scheduled breaks or periods of time where teens cannot access the app

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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Digital wellness tips for parents

Online safety and privacy

The security and privacy of our community is a top priority for us. Built-in safety and privacy features include:
  • Facebook Privacy Checkup allowing you to monitor and adjust your security and privacy settings
  • Profile visibility letting you see what your profile looks like to the public or a specific person and adjust accordingly
Teen Accounts: have additional layers of protection. These accounts:
  • Are automatically set to protective message delivery settings. Only Facebook friends and other connections can chat with teens
  • Automatically set to protective teen safety settings
  • Require teens under 16 to request parental approval to change settings
With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:
  • See their teen's Facebook friends and Messenger contacts
  • See account privacy settings and content preferences
  • See Messenger DM and story control settings

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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