Discord has released an update to its Family Center, giving parents more insight into their teen’s usage patterns, including purchases, top interactions, and time spent. The goal is to help parents monitor if their teen is spending excessive time or money on Discord.
The communications platform first launched Family Center in 2023 with an activity dashboard showing which servers their teen is connected to and a weekly email summary for parents about their teen’s activity. The platform is now expanding these monitoring capabilities.
Parents can now see the total purchases made by a teen over the past week, including items from the Discord Shop and Nitro subscriptions (Discord’s premium subscription service).
They can also see the total time spent on voice and video calls in DMs, groups, and servers over the past week. Additionally, Discord will display the top five users and servers that teens have interacted with over the past seven days. It comes as other social networks Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat have also implemented restrictions on contacting teenagers.
Discord is also adding new parental controls with settings in the app that can only be changed by parents. They can now control who can DM their teen and whether sensitive content should be filtered. Parents can also manage data privacy controls for teens, setting how Discord uses their data, including showing them personalized ads.
The company also said that when teens report content on the platform, they now have the option to notify their parents or guardians about their action. However, Discord said it would not disclose what content was reported and that teens are instead encouraged to discuss it directly with their parents.
“The new features allow parents who have linked Family Center accounts to take a more active role in creating a safe space online for teens while respecting their privacy,” Discord said in a blog post.
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