Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After nine years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids from the problems with social media. It will now ask new users to input their birth date and bar users younger than 13 from joining. However, it won’t be asking existing users their age, so Instagram will turn a blind eye to any underage kids already amongst its 1 billion members.

<p>Instagram is done playing dumb about users&rsquo; ages. After nine years, Instagram is<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/03/instagram-age-limit/"> finally embracing </a>more responsibility to protect underage kids from the problems with social media. It will now ask new users to input their birth date and bar users younger than 13 from joining. However, it won&rsquo;t be asking existing users their age, so Instagram will turn a blind eye to any underage kids already amongst its 1 billion members.</p>

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