{"id":15993,"date":"2024-09-23T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/its-not-a-solution-for-teen-girls-like-me-instagrams-new-under-18-rules-met-with-skepticism\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:37:29","slug":"its-not-a-solution-for-teen-girls-like-me-instagrams-new-under-18-rules-met-with-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/its-not-a-solution-for-teen-girls-like-me-instagrams-new-under-18-rules-met-with-skepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not a solution for teen girls like me\u2019: Instagram\u2019s new under-18 rules met with skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s changes include making teen accounts private and \u2018limiting sensitive content\u2019. Many say it\u2019s not enough<\/p>\n<p>Sevey Morton first got an Instagram account when she was 10 years old. She used it to keep up with friends, but also to follow pop culture trends. Now 16, the San Diego high schooler says all the airbrushed perfection and slickly edited selfies from celebrities and influencers made her hyper-focused on her appearance, causing anxiety and body image issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing exposed to that at a very young age impacted the way I grew into myself,\u201d Morton said. \u201cThere is a huge part of me that wishes social media did not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/23\/meta-instagram-teen-account-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/52a5c2dbac89d2fef8b93ea7c2457293944ade4e\/0_0_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=aaac10a1b7f785dfbd44bde38c31cc7b\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s not a solution for teen girls like me\u2019: Instagram\u2019s new under-18 rules met with skepticism\" \/>Meta\u2019s changes include making teen accounts private and \u2018limiting sensitive content\u2019. Many say it\u2019s not enough<br \/>\nSevey Morton first got an Instagram account when she was 10 years old. She used it to keep up with friends, but also to follow pop culture trends. Now 16, the San Diego high schooler says all the airbrushed perfection and slickly edited selfies from celebrities and influencers made her hyper-focused on her appearance, causing anxiety and body image issues.<br \/>\n\u201cBeing exposed to that at a very young age impacted the way I grew into myself,\u201d Morton said. \u201cThere is a huge part of me that wishes social media did not exist.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s changes include making teen accounts private and \u2018limiting sensitive content\u2019. Many say it\u2019s not enough Sevey Morton first got an Instagram account when she was 10 years old. She used it to keep up with friends, but also to follow pop culture trends. Now 16, the San Diego high schooler says all the airbrushed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/its-not-a-solution-for-teen-girls-like-me-instagrams-new-under-18-rules-met-with-skepticism\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s not a solution for teen girls like me\u2019: Instagram\u2019s new under-18 rules met with skepticism<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}