1 / 5Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is adding some new parental monitoring tools and privacy features to its platforms. Notably, social media companies are coming under scrutiny for their impact on adolescent mental health.2 / 5Many of these monitoring features require the consent of children and their parents to adopt them, raising questions about how effective they are. For example, if someone is blocked on Instagram, a notice will be sent to them. Its purpose is that.3 / 5Under the new system, parents can set social media usage limits, see what their kids are following and who is following them, if kids opt in to this feature. They also know that children on Instagram4 / 5Instagram added a new parental control feature last year. Meta has not reported any data on how many teenagers have adopted the system so far. In such a monitoring system, parents can know that their child is being monitored.5 / 5According to Meta, 'This will help parents understand how much their children know about these accounts.' US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned last month that there was insufficient evidence that social media For children and teenagers.