Helping teens have positive connections

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

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What’s New on Facebook and Messenger?

Facebook and Messenger are always evolving to give parents and teens better tools and experiences.

Age-appropriate content filters

Facebook and Messenger’s Teen Accounts enable content settings inspired by 13+ content ratings.

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Manage everything in one place

Send one invitation to supervise all your teens’ Meta accounts in one place.

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AI protections on Facebook and Messenger

Parents supervising Teen Accounts can now see the topics their teen has asked Meta AI about in the last seven days.

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Age-appropriate content filters

Facebook and Messenger’s Teen Accounts enable content settings inspired by 13+ content ratings.

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FEATURES AND TOOLS

Foster positive online experiences with account features and tools

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

Interactions

To keep our technologies safe from abusive behavior, we monitor policy violations and have measures in place to keep abuse off our services. Measures to help you prevent unwanted contact include:

Blocking someone (on Facebook or Messenger) to prevent unwanted conversations or future interactions
Limiting the level of visibility and interaction you have with certain people (on Facebook or Messenger) through audience settings and message delivery settings
Reporting of content or accounts that violate our guidelines and standards

Some protections are automatically enabled. With Facebook 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 you follow
Who can see posts 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 your teen has blocked
See who can message your teen or view their stories
See reported accounts that your teen shares with you

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

How services and tools from Meta support age-appropriate experiences

Talking with teens about positive online interactions

Appropriate content

Meta has implemented various measures designed to limit exposure to inappropriate content and abuse on our apps and has established standards for what is and isn't allowed. Safety features available for all accounts include:

Comment management: allows you to decide who can comment on your Facebook public posts
Content filters: filter out emojis, words, or phrases that you (or the community) find offensive on your Facebook Page
Audience selector:enables you to control who can see your posts on Facebook
Review tags: allows you to approve or dismiss Facebook posts you are tagged in before they appear on your profile

Teen Accounts have additional layers of protection by default that limit teens' ability to:

Follow, search for, interact with or see content from profiles or Pages that primarily share content inappropriate for teens when in the 13+ setting.
See search results for a wider range of mature terms (like “alcohol”), along with other sensitive topics.

In addition, by default teens under 18 will typically see content, such as posts, reels and stories, that is similar to what they would see in content rated for ages 13+.

With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:

See what your teen has blocked

For more information, read our full Community Standards.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

How to Form Healthy Habits Online with Your Teenager

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 like:

Your time on Facebook shows you the average time per day you spend on Facebook
Daily limits on Facebook sending reminders to your teen to close Facebook after 1 hour each day

Teen Accounts have additional default settings:

Sleep mode automatically turning on between 10 PM and 7 AM, muting notifications overnight and displaying 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 after which the teen cannot access the app
Create scheduled breaks or periods of time where teens cannot access the app

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

How to Form Healthy Habits Online with Your Teenager

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 parental approval to change the 13+ content setting
Require parental approval to change all other teen account settings for teens under 16 and older teens that opt into parental supervision

With supervision enabled, parents and guardians can:

See their teen's Facebook friends and who their teen has chatted with in the last 7 days on Messenger
See account privacy settings and content preferences
See message delivery and story controls settings