Helping teens have positive connections

To keep our technologies safe from abusive behavior, 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 the level of visibility and interaction you have with certain people
• Reporting content or accounts that violate our guidelines and standards

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 their teen has blocked
• See reported accounts that your teen shares with you

Meta recognizes how important it is for Facebook and Messenger to be a place where people can communicate, and we have measures in place to keep abuse off our apps. That’s why we developed standards for what is and isn’t allowed on our apps and use technology and review teams to help us detect and evaluate potentially violating content and accounts. For more, read our full Community Standards and familiarize yourself with safety features like:

• Comment management letting you decide who is able to comment on your Facebook posts
  
• Content filters filtering out any emojis, words or phrases 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
  

With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:

• See account privacy settings and content preferences
• See reported content that your teen shares with you

We encourage teens to manage their time on Facebook and Messenger by enabling them to create boundaries around their social media use. In an effort to help them manage time, we’ve implemented features like:

• Your time on Facebook showing you the average time per day you spend on Facebook
• Daily reminders allowing your teen to schedule daily limit alerts
• Take a break notifications when they’ve spent 20 minutes on Facebook

With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:

• See insights around their teen’s use
• Set hard or soft limits on daily use
• Create scheduled breaks or periods of time where they cannot access the app

The security and privacy of our community is a top priority for us. To help keep young people safe, we restrict adults over 18 from starting private chats with teens they're not connected to on Messenger and have even stricter default message settings for teens under 16. If a teen is already connected with a potentially suspicious adult, we send the teen a safety notice. You and your teen can also access additional safety features like:

• 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

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