Raising Digitally Responsible Youth

Privacy Settings on Instagram

On Instagram, users either share posts with everyone by having a public profile or only share posts with people they have approved to follow them with a private profile. SST strongly suggests our children have private profiles until they are ready to start using their profile as a portfolio for prospective jobs, for admission to post- secondary institutions, or other personal/professional projects. A public profile will show the account’s content publicly on Instagram, even without logging in:

A private profile will show the account but not the content they post:

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