Snapchat announces new account protections to help protect teenagers
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What you need to know Snapchat has announced new protections that will prevent teenagers from having their accounts recommended to others. Teenagers aged 13 to 17 will no longer have their profiles recommended as potential new followers. Kids under 18 will only have their accounts recommended if they have a given number of friends in common. Kids will no longer have their accounts recommended to others via the Quick Add feature. Social network Snapchat has announced new account controls that will hopefully make it more difficult for strangers to befriend teenagers. The change will prevent accounts of teenagers ages 13 to 17 from being recommended as potential new follows via the Quick Add feature. The new move, announced via blog post, should ensure that teenagers` accounts aren`t made so visible to strangers. However, those accounts will still be recommended via the Quick Add feature if they have a number of friends in common. We recently added a new safeguard to Quick Add...