Discord has rolled out updates to its Family Center, giving caregivers greater insight into their teens' app usage patterns, including purchases, key interactions and time spent. The goal is to help parents monitor whether their teen is spending too much time and money on Discord.
The messaging platform first launched Family Center in 2023, with an activity dashboard showing which servers their teens have joined and a weekly email summary of teen activity for caregivers. The platform is now expanding these monitoring capabilities.
Guardians can now see the total number of purchases a teen has made in the last week, including items from the Discord Store and Nitro subscriptions (Discord's premium membership service).
They can also see the total time spent on voice and video calls in chat, groups and servers over the past week. Additionally, Discord will display the five users and servers that teens have interacted with the most over the past seven days. This follows other social networks Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat they have also implemented restrictions on who can contact teenagers.
Discord is also adding new parental controls to the app, with settings that only guardians can change. They can now control who can DM their teens and whether sensitive content should be filtered. Guardians can also manage teen data privacy controls by determining how Discord uses their data, including whether to show them personalized ads.
The company also said teens who report content on the platform now have the option to report their actions to their parents or guardians. However, Discord said it would not reveal what content was reported and encourages teens to instead discuss the issue directly with their guardians.
“The new features allow caregivers who have connected Family Center accounts to play a more active role in creating a safer online space for teens while respecting their privacy,” Discord said in a blog post.
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