Discord has rolled out updates to its Family Center, giving guardians more information about their teens’ usage patterns, including purchases, top interactions, and time spent. The goal is to help parents monitor if their teen is spending too much time or money on Discord.
The communication platform first launched Family Center in 2023 with an activity dashboard that shows which servers their teens are signed up to and a weekly email summary for parents of their teen’s activity. The platform now extends these tracking capabilities.
Guardians can now see the total purchases made by the teen in the last week, including items from Discord’s Shop and Nitro subscriptions (Discord’s premium subscription service).
They can also see the total time spent on voice and video calls to DMs, groups and servers in the past week. In addition, Discord will display the top five users and servers that teens have interacted with in the past seven days. This comes after other social networks Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat they have also implemented restrictions on who can contact the teenagers.
Discord is also adding new parental controls to the app with settings that can only be changed by guardians. They can now control who can DM their teen and whether sensitive content should be filtered. Guardians can also manage data privacy controls for teens by determining how Discord uses their data, including whether to show them personalized ads.
The company also said that when teens report content on the platform, they now have the ability to notify their parents or guardians of their action. However, Discord said it will not disclose the reported content and encourages teens to discuss it directly with their guardians.
“The new features allow guardians who have linked Family Center accounts to take 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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