Discord has introduced enhancements to its Family Center, providing parents with more visibility into their teenagers’ activities on the platform, including their spending habits, top interactions, and time spent. The main objective is to assist guardians in monitoring whether their teens are excessively investing time and money on Discord.
The Family Center was initially launched by the communication platform in 2023, offering an activity dashboard that showcases the servers their teens are part of and a weekly email summary for guardians detailing their teen’s engagement. Discord is now expanding these monitoring features.
Guardians now have access to information on the total purchases made by their teens in the past week, including items from Discord’s Shop and Nitro subscriptions, the platform’s premium membership service.
They can also track the total time spent on voice and video calls in direct messages, groups, and servers within the past week. Moreover, Discord will highlight the top five users and servers that the teens have interacted with over the last seven days. This update follows similar moves by social networks like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, which have implemented measures to restrict contacts with teens.
Discord is introducing new parental controls to the app, with settings that only guardians can modify. They now have the authority to manage who can send direct messages to their teen and decide whether sensitive content should be filtered. Guardians can also oversee data privacy settings for teens, determining how Discord utilizes their information, including the display of personalized advertisements.
The company has also announced that when teens flag content on the platform, they now have the option to inform their parents or guardians about their actions. However, Discord assures that it will not disclose the specific content reported and encourages teens to have direct discussions with their guardians on this matter.
In a blog post, Discord mentioned, “The new features empower guardians with linked Family Center accounts to actively contribute to creating a safer online environment for teens while respecting their privacy.”
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