With the internet becomes more penetrating our lives every day, it has emerged at various risks. Cyber bullying is one of these risks. Cyber bullying, called the use of digital environments to harass or threaten, embarrass or threaten another person, has become one of the biggest problems today. Instagram, who wants to prevent this risk, developed a new feature that ‘restricting’ without noticing bullying users.
The feature developed to lead the struggle against online bullying in social networks has been tested since July. The so -called “restricted” feature, published last Wednesday, will help to fight bullying.
The “restriction” feature allows you to prevent other users from seeing the comments from this person. Restricted users cannot see if you are active on Instagram or whether they read their messages directly. Users can also confirm their comments with feature and show the comments of the limited person to others.
Prof. Dr. Pace University, who carries out studies focused on social media and mobile marketing. Dr. According to Randi Priluck’s research last year; 50 percent of young people in the United States are bullying or harassed in an online environment.
In another study conducted by a bullying group, it reveals a parallel result. According to this study, 42 %of the victims of cyber bullying between the ages of 12-20 are bullying on Instagram.
According to Instagram, who works against cyber bullying, a ‘bully’, blocking, quitting or notification can end with the unpredictable behavior of the person who makes bullying. With the ‘restriction’ feature developed in this direction, Instagram users can protect themselves without notifying the bullying person.
Co -Director of Siber Bullying Research Center and Professor of Florida Atlantic University. Sameer Hinduja, on the other hand, has newly developed by Instagram, “We need to see how much the feature works and whether the critical Instagram users audience use this feature.” He said.
Instagram had developed a new tool with artificial -intelligence, which evaluated whether a comment was aggressive before it was published.
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01-01-1970 02:00:00