Google+ officially welcoming teenagersJanuary 26, 2012 - 23:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Google+ is now officially welcoming teenagers and tailoring the experience of the social networking site for them by making it more restrictive and potentially safer, PC World reported. Until now Google+ had been technically for people 18 and older, although it is well-known that minors routinely enter false ages to get access to sites that have a minimum age restriction in their terms of use. Be that as it may, teens who sign up with their real ages at Google+ will have a user experience that features special safeguards intended to prevent them from "over sharing" and to protect them from strangers with bad intentions. For example, Google+ will display a warning whenever a teen user tries to share content - photos, videos, posts - publicly with everyone on the site, instead of just with the hand-selected people they have on their contact lists, which are known as Circles in Google+. In addition, people who aren't in a teen's Circles will not be able to contact them via the site. Also, in the video chat Hangouts feature of Google+, teen participants will be booted from the session when someone outside of their Circles joins, and then given a chance to re-join if they wish. Other social networking sites also offer safety restrictions for minors, including Facebook. The problem has been that it's very difficult for these sites to verify users' ages, so many teens and children get around the restrictions, as several studies have found. For example, last year Consumer Reports did a survey and found that 7.5 million Facebook users were under the site's minimum age of 13, including 5 million who were 10 and under. For Google+, the age definition of a teen is 13 or older in the U.S. and elsewhere, except in Spain (14 or older), South Korea (14 or older) and the Netherlands (16 or older), according to a Google spokeswoman. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel. Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |