Instagram wants to know your birthday – and it’s for your own good


Instagram has started showing a pop-up asking for the date of birth of users who have not filled in this information in their profile. — AFP Relaxnews

Instagram wants to know your birth date! Not to wish you a happy birthday, but to better control the type of content viewers see, based on age. It’s a setting that will become mandatory and will hopefully serve its purpose of protecting younger users.

Soon, there won’t be any way around it. Instagram intends to make it mandatory for you to provide your date of birth if you want to continue using its service. The social network unveiled this new measure on August 30 on its blog.

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