Elizabeth Crenshaw: "[W]e're going to create a little infographic/timeline of youth safety efforts… and perhaps just give small heads up to a few reporters but nothing major"
████: "id be slightly nervous about alerting reporters to the fact that these privacy settings were defaulted off before 🙁"
████: "also – it occurred to me the other day – we say 'there are lots of valid reasons why young people woudl have public accounts', and cite the example of creators/young entrepreneurs… but wouldnt they have a creator/biz accounts, which are automatically public?"
Elizabeth Crenshaw: "yes… but still valid… i think???"
████: just feels like we're then making the rules for those exceptions, versus deciding to err on safety and just say under 16 accounts on IG are private… the risk could then be if u16s then switched to professional accounts so they could have public accounts – but im not sure how big a risk that is"
Elizabeth Crenshaw: "i dont disagree… but you know how contentious this change alone was"
████: "it's absolutely mad that it was so contentious… with adam or others too?... we will never get out of this mess if he/we're not just prepared to ERR ON THE SIDE OF SAFETY… jesus… i know i'm advocating for NOT letting them switch back – but i don't get why defaulting into private was contentious, given they CAN just switch back!"
Elizabeth Crenshaw: "it was mostly adam for sure… it was a huge growth hit… like shockingly so"
████: "would he want any tom dick or harry being able to see all his kids' content, follow them etc? is he fucking nuts?... interesting… well not doing it for that reason would have been unforgivable so im glad we did!
Elizabeth Crenshaw: "i mean we did NOT do it for a very long period of time because of that… i agree though"
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