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Cat & Nat Unfiltered
Parenting Unfiltered: Empowering Parents in the Digital Age
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Antigone Sydney Davis
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Antigone Sydney Davis
We've done even more recently on that and then notifications. So this is parents concerned about time. Notifications are turned off in the evening. I don't know about you, but one of the biggest things for me was trying to make sure that my daughter got a good night's sleep.
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Podcast Host 1
Natalie, what do I do?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
I hope it's giddy, giddy.
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Podcast Host 2
Thank you for joining us. I know this has been a long journey because everyone's so busy, so we're so appreciative you're here and this is such a great conversation, especially for our audience. So Natalie, take it away.
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Podcast Host 1
Okay. I'm going to start with Antigone's bio. So Antigone, did I say it right?
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Wayfair/Workday Ad Voice
You did.
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Podcast Host 2
You did.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Thank you. People call me Tiggy, by the way.
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Podcast Host 1
Over time I was imagine like, do all the people in her life always say Antigone or she's. Her friends have got to have a nickname.
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Podcast Host 2
Tiggy.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
That's good.
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Podcast Host 1
That's cute. Okay, so Antigone. Sydney Davis is global Head of Safety at Meta, where she leads the teams and advisors shaping how Meta's platforms keep people safe around the world. A former educator, she spent a decade working for the U.S. for a U.S. state attorney general before joining Meta, before building the early online safety and privacy frameworks that help tackle today's toughest digital challenges. In addition to her legal degree, she has an MA in Education and is special. Spent the better part of her career focused on child related issues. You have so many things that you know how to do well.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Or you could say, like, I hopped around figuring out what I was gonna do, so. But yes, when.
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Podcast Host 1
Sorry, I. This wasn't it. But as a former educator.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Yes. So I taught for a brief period a middle school kids, which. And now you're at Meadows Run. Yes, yes.
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Podcast Host 1
Those middle school kids are like, wow, she's cool.
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Podcast Host 2
Look at her job now.
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Podcast Host 1
You know. We attended a school Screen Smart event last fall. We were, we were so excited to be invited to be there because it was just such relatable content to us and our audience. And we were able to explore where we were able to explore team accounts and for. For parents who haven't had a deep dive. Can you, Antigone, summarize what teen accounts are and the key updates that Meta rolled out just in this past fall?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Absolutely. So, first of all, I'm so glad that you did a Screen Smart event.
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Podcast Host 1
I am.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Where I'm very, very proud of that work because it's an opportunity for us to really talk to PAR directly and to talk to people like you directly to get the word out about teen accounts and hopefully through the audience that you have, really get that word out to parents. Because I think I found as a parent myself, one of the hardest things was getting information, knowing how to do this or where to go. So I'm so glad that you did that. So teen accounts basically completely reimagine the way that teens and parents are engaging online. And with apps, what it's designed to do is essentially put in place built in protections that give both teens and parents peace of mind. And then if a teen wants to change those protections, they really have to invite their parent into the online experience. The reason for that is that generally, and I'm sure you've seen this with your own kids, the more you're engaged with their online life, the better they do, which is kind of seems very obvious, but I think people forget that the more you're kind of engaging, kids are looking to their parents to be involved. And so this really is designed to facilitate that and make it easier. The protections only also aligns specifically with the things that parents care about. So we talked to parents a lot, we did surveys, and what we found is that parents care a lot about the content that their kids are seeing online, who they're connecting with, and the amount of time that they're spending. And so for teen accounts, the protections are built in. Built in private account. Your account is automatically private. That's about making sure that kids are not just connecting with anybody on the Internet.
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Podcast Host 1
So what you're saying is when a teen gets an account, they're automatically enrolled as private unless otherwise discussed with parents,
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Antigone Sydney Davis
or it's never allowed unless a parent gives them permission. And the importance of a private account is it affects even like your messaging restrictions so that other people can't just like just a random person can't automatically go and try to message your teen. They have to be connected to that teen to message the teenager. And there are some instances in which a parent might want to allow. So for example, you've probably seen this. There are kids who are creators or kids who want to be able to, you know, who are have. And we have some kids who have businesses that they're doing online. So there are places and spaces where a kid may want to have or a teen may want to be in a public account. But we want, if they're doing that, for a parent to have given them permission. And that's important because. And I'll talk about this in a minute. Our supervision tools give parents a lot of insight. So once that is set up, a parent has a lot more insight into their teens account. But so if you're in a teen account, you're private by default. Strictest messaging restrictions, you are in a content experience that is restricted. And I'll talk to you a little bit about that because that's a more even. We've done even more recently on that. And then notifications. So this is parents concerned about time. Notifications are turned off in the evening. I don't know about you, but one of the biggest things for me was trying to make sure that my daughter got a good night's sleep. And if they're being pinged at night, there's just like. That interrupts that ability. So between 10pm and 7am notifications are turned off. In addition, if you Put our supervision tools on. A parent can set time boundaries around their teen use of Instagram. So for example, if you wanted to have the app off during dinner, you wanted to have the app off from 3 o' clock to, you know, 8 o'.
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Podcast Host 2
Clock.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
So your teen is doing homework. You can make sure that the app is turned off during those periods.
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Podcast Host 2
I have a. When I came home actually from that event, it came up. I feel like it was a nudge. Like, it was like, do you have a teen. Do you want this to like, if they have a teen account, it. It encourages you to like push the. What am I trying to say here? Is it automatically enrolled if they have an account, do they have to go and do more? Or is it that they just have to go find it and then sign their kid up if their kid has an account already, like before the fall? Yeah, like if they've had it for two years and now it's like teen account. Is my kid in it automatically or automatically.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
So the way. What hap. We launched teen accounts at the end of 2024 and what we did was first offering it to new to someone who went to sign up. You found a teen account, also took teens who were already on our platform, sent them information, letting them know this was change was happening and then move them all into these teen account protections.
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Podcast Host 1
Got you.
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Podcast Host 2
It told me that it was like, you have a teen. Here's your teen account. Okay, I, I saw that and I was. Yes.
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Podcast Host 1
And another question is, you know how you said that, like for the notifications at night, how it said. I think you said like 10 to 7 or something like that. Is that for your kids? Because that's a time that you set. Or is that a generic time that Meta thinks is a good time for everyone to go to bed and can it be altered or is that like a parenting suggestion?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Yeah, it's a good. It's a good question. So that's the, that's the automatic default. So the Automatic default is 10 to 7. It's basically would be like 9 hours of sleep. It's designed to kind of capture typical sleeping hours for.
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Podcast Host 1
That's funny that that actually is like for, for like a parent who's like, I don't know when it should be turned off. Well, I'm, I assume, assume that Meta has done their research to know what is an appropriate time for a team to be. So take that as a little free parenting tip. Parents.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
But there are some parents who might want it off from nine to seven. Or if you have an athlete in your, in your family and they get up at, you know, 5:00am to go do their, you know, swim practice in the morning. You can set it for earlier because they're likely going to bed 9pm to 5am and that's where supervision tools are really important. If a teen is in teen accounts and wants to change any of those settings, they have to invite a parent in. But you can also set up our supervision tools without that. You just have to go and basically ask the teen to set them up back and forth and then you set them up. And if you have our supervision tools, then you could pick. As a parent, I really want my teen to be off from 8pm to 7pm and you can shift and change those parameters. So we've picked a, a default that we think is probably globally applicable. But parents, parents know their kids best and so we want to make sure that we give them the ability to change it.
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Podcast Host 2
When, when we were at the event, I was so appreciative that the panel listened to the parents and their concerns and the conversations. It was really open and honest conversation where Meta didn't shy away from any questions, any conversations. And like the dialogue is so important because it's so easy to point fingers, get mad, but you know, if it's happening and you know your, your kids are on it, it's so, it's so helpful for parents to hear these conversations and not feel guilty or like shamed about, you know, what's happening and that we're able to talk about ways we can support parents and teenagers because really we all want the best for them. And I'm assuming in your work you hear from parents all the time. And a lot of these settings and these, this teen accounts have come out of parents having these conversations with you. And as a par, I'm sure you, and as a school, someone who worked in the school, this is like core to you. This isn't just some made up decision you decided to do out of the blue with no experience with children?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Well, no, for sure. And I, I mean here, here's the thing. There's a. People are thinking about these issues a lot. Policymakers are thinking about these issues, parents are thinking about these issues, teens are thinking about these issues. And we're collecting a lot of information to understand what people want and in thinking about how do we really address the issue. We took, in a way, parents, what we call our North Star. We really wanted to align what we were doing with what parents needed and also what they expected. And so that is how we Came up with this, with this approach. But that's an ongoing conversation. And a really good example of that is what we've done recently with content on the platform. So when we first launched teen accounts, we put teens into this more restricted content setting, what we called sort of a sensitive content control. And it was on to the strictest setting. Parents came back to us and were like, we don't really understand what that means. What is sensitive content? This is not entirely helpful to us in the way we would hope. And so in having a conversation back and forth, we tried to figure out what is a mental model that works for them that they will understand that we can create a content experience that makes sense to them. And that was how we landed on hearing back and forth from them using movie ratings. So using. Trying to use a typical 13 movie rating, which every parent kind of understands what that is and what to expect in that. And then we took our policies, we looked at them compared to what we knew publicly about movie ratings, line them to those policies. In some places we were already stricter, but in some places we were not. So for. I'll give a really good example that in movies there's a limited amount of profanity that can be allowed. They allow certain kind of profanity in a 13 plus movie, but only with a limited frequency. And so we adjusted our system so that that is more like what you would see in a typical movie. Also, Parent conversation surveyed about 150,000 parents to hear from them to make sure that it aligned with what they would expect on our platform. Cause it's not apples to apples movies to what you're experiencing on the, on the Internet and so are on apps. There were some places where parents wanted something stricter inside of our apps. So Risky Stunts is a really good example. Parents are like, you know, it's one thing to see something a little bit risky in a movie, it's another thing to see it in an app. And so we adjusted our policies. So this is designed to really find the right mental model for parents, something that they could understand. And we'll continue to iterate, we'll continue to change as we go.
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Podcast Host 2
That's so helpful too because as people who are in the app industry, it's like speaking a different language to parents who didn't grow up in that. It's like it's part education, it's part like really a lot of the job is educating parents on what it all means. And when you put it in terms that people can understand, it's like A light bulb moment. You're like, oh, I get that now. Because it's not just a free for all, it's suggested guidance, you know, like conversations with parents. Not just a free for all. Free them now. They're just, oh, go let them have at it. It's constantly parents checking in.
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Wayfair/Workday Ad Voice
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Podcast Host 2
So you want that.
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Podcast Host 1
And that's like the second question here that we have that teens are on more than 40 apps a week. How can parents keep up with feeling like it's like it's a, like it's a full time job to keep up with it, especially when they might not be tech savvy, which really are the majority of security. Yes. Like not many of us, like we live in this world, the three of us, but none of our friends do.
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Podcast Host 2
Parents are exhausted. They don't even know what to do any. They don't know I am exhausted.
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Podcast Host 1
Do they not know what they're talking about, what kids are talking about? But they're also have no idea what is going on online. So like, how can, how can parents not feel like it is their full time job? Like they have a full time job, they're trying to parent. They might be in a relationship, pay the bills and have a friend trying
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Podcast Host 2
to work out, trying to walk a dog, trying to make dinner, just trying to live a life, have a little bit of fun.
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Podcast Host 1
And then they're like, well, this just feels like a full time job too. How do we speak to these parents?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Yeah, well, I mean, with teen accounts, we were trying to make it simpler for parents, but we also are pushing a solution that we think would make things a lot simpler for parents. So if you think about it, your teens get a phone. The minute they get a phone, they have access to an app store that gives them access to about a million to 2 million apps, depending on the app store that they're accessing, that they can download automatically. They can just go ahead and download it. And for a parent, what that means, and I think you're kind of getting at this a little bit. I have my phone right here. If you want to know what's going on, you've got to grab that phone from your teen because so much of their life happens inside of that device. And so what we're suggesting is that when your teen goes to download an app in the app store, you as a parent would get a notification that basically says, if your teen's under 16, do you want to give your teen permission? It gives you an opportunity to see what the, the app is. There are 40 different apps. I work in tech and I probably couldn't just rattle off 40 apps or. And particularly the 40 apps that my teen is using. And so you get a notification that basically says your team wants to download this app. You could see what that app is, you can look and understand what it is and you can say yes or no. And they can't put it onto their phone until you've given that permission. Which then enables apps like ours to also connect with you as a parent and give you directly those supervision tools that I was talking about, for example. And we as an app can also get the age of the. In a privacy protecting way, which I'll talk to you about in a minute. But that allows us to basically know and put teens into the right experience. So the idea is, how do we make it simpler for parents? You can't go and try to. Right now. You'd have to. If you didn't want your teen to be using an app and they've downloaded it, you'd have to go to the phone, you'd have to delete the app, you'd have to, you know, yank that phone from the, from your teen, which I don't know if you have ever had this experience, but I remember trying to say to my daughter, give me your phone. And her saying no. And then you're like, okay, now what do I do? I don't like, do I yank it from her? You know, so you can, you as a parent, you'll figure that out. But it would be a lot easier if you didn't have to do that. And by the way, right now if you delete it from their phone, they can go back and just put it back on their phone.
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Podcast Host 1
Yep.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
And so this just doesn't feel good to parents. So setting up a system where they just were able from their own device to be able to say yes or no to an app seems like a really good and simple solution for parents.
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Podcast Host 2
And by the way, I have downtime, as in we on our account have downtime on Instagram. Like, it's like it's, it's, you're, it's your downtime now. And we, if we had a notification at 9:45 that it's downtime, I'm like family, bye. I know, but I, I put it on our account so that, because it goes into silent mode. So like it, everything just goes silent for us too. At. And I think the people are notified that we're on silent mode. Yeah, like, it's like they're, they're in, they're in bed, leave them, don't expect anything.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
And which is a relief because if you so with our notifications that are turned off for teens, the people who try to contact your teen also get hey, this is. They're in this sort of sleep mode.
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Podcast Host 2
That's helpful. That's helpful for them. So they don't feel like they're getting. Because that is a big issue. They feel like they're getting on. On red. Yes, I would say they read like but they're actually getting told no because it would take off. A lot of parents wouldn't get that. But that would take a lot of anxiety out of kids feeling like they were ignoring their friends and it tells them no. No, it's someone. It's like their personal assistant. I'm in bed.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Right, right. That's exactly right. It takes a little bit of the burden off of the off of a teenage. So they're not feeling like they've said no or they're ignoring their friends. And at the end of that morning, they, in the morning when they have it again, they can see if someone contacted them. So they don't feel like they've the other issue is having them worry that they've missed out on something.
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Podcast Host 2
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Antigone Sydney Davis
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Podcast Host 1
totally. Your research shows strong support in Canada for App Store age verification. Walk us us through what it is, how it protects teens and why we might see a similar system introduced in Canada.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Let me take a try to take a step back here. App stores have this information. When you purchase the phone, you set up an account for your teen. You provide this information to the App Store. So right now app stores have information about who that account holder is and their age. And so what would happen is if someone under the age of 16 tries to download the app, they know that they are required to get their parents permission. They get their parents permission, then that app is downloaded. At that moment in time. The App Store would let us know the app on the phone whether or not that teen is under 13 to 15, 16 teen, whatever that age is, whatever the age of the user is, so that we can then put the teen into the right to the right experience.
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Podcast Host 2
Right?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
The idea here, and by the way I want to take an important step back. We are going to do age assurance. We already do a bunch of age assurance. So we ask the teen's age when they sign up for our account. Now, can teens lie? We have some systems that are designed to try to not allow them to do that. But teens may choose to lie or give an inaccurate age that supports.
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Podcast Host 2
Sometimes parents allow that, right?
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Yes. Sometimes they're apparent.
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Podcast Host 2
So like it is, it's a two way street here, parents. We also have to take responsibility and like if we're going to allow it, then that's, that's, that's, that's not what something meta can handle. Like that's on you.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
We do do some stuff to try to identify teens. So we use technology to identify, for example, we've built over time through the signals on our platform. We can tell pretty well someone who's over 18 versus someone who's under 18. And so if we see someone saying they're over 18 and we have signaled that they're not, we're going to put them into those, into those protections.
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Podcast Host 1
Wow.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
We see, sometimes we get information on the platform where someone says, hey, happy 15th birthday and we see that this person has told us that they're 18. We can actually then take steps to even ask them to verify their age.
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Podcast Host 1
And that's wild. That's interesting. I feel like parents would be like, I can't believe that like with everything that's going on, you know, with meta, that they would have the time or care to like be putting these things in.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
We want people to have a safe experience on the platform. It's not beneficial to us for people to not have a safe experience on the platform. And so it helps if we can understand people's age. We're going to continue to do that no matter what. But app stores are sitting on a set of information that they collect when they're setting up these accounts and having them share that information with us in a privacy preserving way. We're not asking for the birth date, we're literally asking for a signal somewhere between. Are they between 13 or 15? Are they between 16 and 16 and 18, are they 18 and above? Yes or no? That's it.
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Podcast Host 2
That team communication to help the teen. It's literally just like let's get on the same page here and protect the teens.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
And the other thing I think that's important is you were talking about sort of the age lying bit of this. There's this moment in time where a parent purchases or the responsible adult in a teen's Life purchases that phone for the teen and sets up the account. And you have to have an adult doing that, because to set up the service and the wireless service that goes with that phone, you have to have a credit card. So there's this moment in time where there's an adult with that teen, and once the phone is handed over, that's gone. And that's a moment in time where the parent can attest to the age or where you can get a verified age. And we should use that moment and capture it and not require parents and families to have to do this. For each and every app and give an id. For each and every app, there's a simple moment, and then you can share it across the across.
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Podcast Host 2
Because I'm fully guilty of being asked to download an app in the middle of doing 3 million things, and it sounds like, okay, and then you put the thing in and off they go. Right? So you're. You're right in that. That we do need to work together. Like, this has to be a group effort with all of us. This is, you know, this is all of us for the betterment of the youth rather than just one responsibility.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
We each have a role to play. I think that's exactly right. App Store has a role to play. Apps have a role to play. Parents have a role to play.
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Podcast Host 2
Yes.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Students have a role to play. We won't be able to do this if we don't try to do it together. And if you. And this is where my, like, past working with kids and families and et cetera is so, like, critical. There's nothing that we do for kids that we don't do as a community, as a group, where we have rules that policymakers make, where we. We have obligations that parents understand are on them. Where teens have a role to play and where industry. We have a role to play when it comes to kids. We do this as a group. We always have.
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Podcast Host 1
We always say it takes a village. And, you know, what we. What. What we try and, you know, tell our audience, too, is that, you know, this is another. Online is another part of parenting, but there is parenting involved. You can't just leave it to the children to figure out it.
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Podcast Host 2
It's.
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Podcast Host 1
It's another aspect.
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Podcast Host 2
It's like. It's like a neighborhood. They're walking into a neighborhood, and you have to learn, just like you'd learn about whose house they were going to learn about their online world so you can help them navigate it, because they do have to learn skills in there.
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Podcast Host 1
And not one person is responsible for it all. And what we had said when we went to the meta event is that, you know, they're putting things in place and they're trying to. Nobody's, you know, like you said, it's not good for your business for people to have a bad experience. And all the knowledge that we can gain and knowing that, that you're putting in something, we can't protect them 100%. We know that. But if we all do a little bit, we're definitely putting up some guardrails so that they can. We can all have a better experience. And even for us as parents, we don't want to be arguing with our kids. We don't want to be ripping the phone out of their hands. We don't want to be saying, no more phone. But when the guidelines are sort of like, around to help us out, then let's use them and try to understand them just a little bit more.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
If parents were to look at the supervision tools that we've set up, they're designed to kind of really facilitate what you're talking about. So I would encourage parents to set up the tools. They're great. They let you see who your teen is following, who's following your teen. They let you see who your teen has messaged with recently so that you have a sense of that. Those are all designed to help you have conversations with your teens, have the bit of information that you need to do that, have those important conversations. And then there are also tools to set time parameters. Parents should use them.
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Podcast Host 2
It's like a parent teacher interview, really. It's like you can go have a parent teacher interview. Yeah, right there. And get a little bit of information, see what's going on. You know, you'll go and do that, but, like, just spend some time in their world. And you're saying that you've set it up so they can go do that.
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Podcast Host 1
Just go do it and then don't complain. You feel like you have no control.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Just still complain if you want, because that's helpful for us figuring out what we're not doing well. So you can still complain.
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we're so thankful you made time for us. And honestly, we love these conversations because they're helpful, they're insightful. I think parents need to feel empowered. I think like the shame has to go and conversations around how we can help and what we can do as parents is what we all need and we're just so thankful for that. Where if I'm a parent and I'm like, whoa, I, I want to know about my teens account, I'm assuming it ends at 16.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
No, teen accounts are for under 18. What? When you're under 16, the protections are automatic. They're automatic under 18. But when you're under 16, if you try to change those protections, you have to get your parents permission. So teen accounts are for everybody under 18. If you're under 16 and you want to change those protections, you have to get your parents permission.
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Podcast Host 1
And where supervision part, like tell them
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Antigone Sydney Davis
how to find it, we have a family center. I would encourage parents to use it. You can find it like right on the Internet. You don't even have to have an account, but you can go look at our family center. You will see their information about teen accounts, all kinds of resources for even having these kinds of conversations. And if you set up our supervision tools, then you get a dashboard in your own phone that enables you to do all this right from that.
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Podcast Host 2
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Podcast Host 1
I have to tell you that when you do, parents who are listening, when you do set up any of these supervision tools on any app, immediately you just kind of feel like A little bit bit more relaxed, a little bit more like, like a little bit more clarity into what your kids are doing. It'll make you, you know what, if you want to be selfish parents, it'll make you feel a little bit better, too.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
And, you know, you see things that are important. Like if your teen is reporting something, you get to know about that that's helpful so that you can go and ask your, hey, is something going on? These are all things. I'm going to age myself, but when I was a kid, my parents could hear the other side of a telephone conversation. They could hear my side of the telephone conversation. They used it as a signal. They might not have picked up the phone and tried to spy, but they certainly walked by the room to hear what was going on. So they knew whether to ask a question.
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Podcast Host 2
And can you imagine? You had to call and ask for that person in the house and it might not be the person you're calling for, and you have to talk to a parent and ask for the person you're looking, you're looking for.
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Podcast Host 1
And you're like, we're on the same page, ladies.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
Yeah, we're on the same page.
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Podcast Host 2
Well, we're so appreciative of your time and thank you for being here with us. And it was, it was amazing.
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Antigone Sydney Davis
No, thank you for doing this. Thank you for your podcast. Honestly, it's like parents. I am sure they are. I know that they're hungry for this information. And knowing that there are people like you out there getting this information out is so great.
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