Facebook launches an educational portal to protect teenagers' privacy

Facebook has just launched a new educational platform for teenagers, known as Portal Joven, for younger Internet users to learn basic notions of security and privacy on the web.

Through the Youth Portal, the social network offers information on how to make the most of its services such as pages, groups, events and profile, while maintaining privacy in an educational guide In addition, it explains the types of data that Facebook collects and how it uses them.

Related As reported by the company itself through a statement, the Young Portal is now available in 60 different languages. This tool also collects first-person testimonials from teenagers from different corners of the world as they use technology in original and creative ways.

cybersecurity for teenagers in the young portal

The security section of this Young Portal includes suggestions on aspects such as the recommendation of the use of secure passwords and two-step authentication.Also, alert of the operation of the alert protocol at the beginning of unrecognized session, to report false accounts and report content that violates Facebook rules.

The portal offers a series of recommendations to know if you need a break from social networks, and some guidelines on how to make the most of the Internet while safeguarding privacy and security.

Facebook is also going to start showing on the tab-through notifications-suggestions for teenagers: how to control who sees that in their profile and links to the bullying prevention site.

»To build the portal, we talked with groups of teenagers in the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and Brazil. We also received suggestions at events such as our Safe Internet Day workshops in São Paulo, the #WeMatter youth forum in Canada and our Global Security Network summits.We will hold more round tables over the next few months to continue learning from young people about how they use Facebook, ”they explained through their blog.

for a love use of technology

With the same goal of keeping the safety of the youngest on the net safe, Orange launched last year the project #Porunusolovedelatecnologia to help reflect on a good use of technology.This initiative is aimed at both young people and their parents, using the main route of content consumption of new generations, the video.