<Anchor> It is a
friendly economic time.
Reporter Kim Hye-min is here.
Reporter Kim, social media minors do a lot these days.
However, recent reports show that crimes through social media are also on the rise.
Parents seem to have a lot of worries.
<Reporter>
Jo Joo-bin, a minor sexual exploiter, approached youth through Facebook messenger.
The prostitution of minors is also often done through direct messages on social media.
Recently, adults have been caught buying alcohol and cigarettes for minors, and they have also used social media to approach teenagers.
To prevent such crimes, social media companies have been introducing systems that can protect minors on their own.
So, today (18th), we are going to give you some tips to protect your children on social media.
<Anchor>
I think it would be nice if you listen carefully to your worried parents.
However, social media that children do a lot right now are Instagram and Facebook.
But you said that this company recently created a system that prevents an unknown adult from approaching minors?
<Reporter>
The Instagram and Facebook you mentioned allow individuals to exchange messages with each other.
As I said earlier, a lot of crimes occur through this message.
In particular, there were many cases in which some adults sent large amounts of unhealthy messages to a large number of unspecified minors.
So, social media companies recently blocked adults who have nothing to do with minors from accessing them through messages.
In the case of Instagram, adults who don't follow can't send messages to minors at all.
Facebook has also improved the system so that messages go directly to the spam box unless they are friends with each other.
But the problem is, there is still no way to tell which accounts are underage and even the business.
Now we check whether new people are underage or not.
It is said to be the degree to which accounts estimated to be underage are separately managed using AI technology.
That's why the role of parents is very important, and if your children are new to Facebook or Instagram, you need to induce them to sign up with a minor account in order to be protected from obscene and illegal messages.
<Anchor>
You can sign up with a minor account.
I have to remember this well.
However, in the case of teenagers, they do a lot of SNS called TikTok.
However, there is such a system that parents and children can manage accounts by linking them.
<Reporter>
By linking the accounts of parents and children, you can use TikTok more safely.
First of all, you can adjust your child's app usage time from 40 to 120 minutes per day.
There is also a'restricted mode', and when this is activated, the video that is judged to be inappropriate for a minor to view will not be displayed at all.
You can also limit the number of people who can send direct messages to your kids to friends, or even prevent them from receiving them at all.
In addition, most social media such as Instagram and TikTok cannot be signed up by people under the age of 14.
It is best for children under the age of 14 to avoid social media at all as much as possible.
<Anchor>
But reporter Kim, if parents try to control too much like this, the children will have an adverse effect again, and they will try to secrete their parents.
<Reporter>
This is why I heard some experts' opinions.
He advised that rather than trying to control or manage their children, it is important to talk and communicate with them.
When parents are forced to control, they do social media by avoiding their eyes.
In this case, more side effects can occur.
You should talk to your child in this way, "I don't believe in you, I'm worried because there are so many bad people."
Let’s listen to the experts firsthand.
[CEO Won Eun-jung/Korea Youth Center: When strange people approach or an uncomfortable message comes to friends, the first thing you can tell your parents is to give them the confidence that'in any situation, parents will be on your side, can solve it.' It is important.] It
is said that parents must respect that there is a world of their own, so that children will have the power to protect their own territory.