"Are we comfortable launching private-by-default for teens with the identified retention and engagement drops?"

"Are we comfortable launching private-by-default for teens with the identified retention and engagement drops?" "We want to make Instagram a safer space for teens. Instagram is behind the industry on keeping our platform safe for minors. Other platforms, including TikTok, have taken bold moves to reduce interactions by strangers. We previously announced private-by-default for minors as part of our December age collection moment which helped us land a favorable announcement. This is an area of high scrutiny by regulators and would be better for Instagram to address affirmatively, than forced by regulation. Doing so will result in -2.2% teen DAPDAPDaily Active PeopleCore Meta engagement metric counting the distinct people active on a platform in a day, reported per app and across the family. The source document lists it among the four teen metrics a "Youth Defense Task Force" was formalised to protect - "teen MAP, DAP, TS and PS" - from "experiments and rollouts across Facebook that negatively affect teen metrics".Full entry ↗ (-0.3% overall DAP), -1.9% teen TS (-0.3% overall), -2.3% teen feed impressions (-0.3% overall), -1.7% teen story impressions (-0.2% overall), -4.4% teen feed creation (-0.6% overall), -2.6% teen story creation (-0.4% overall) in 5 years, even after the Graph teams' mitigation work in H1. While small on top-line today, this will accrue over time as teens continue to join IG." "Why should we default teens to private accounts?: Will Increase Teen Safety: Defaulting teens to private will help prevent high severity actions such as child grooming and inappropriate contact with minors. As a result of defaulting to private, private account adoption increases by 5.5x for teens, making it harder for bad actors to discover and message them." "As a result of defaulting teens to private, we see decrease in retention and engagement which will compound over 5 years." "Total launch impact is estimated to be -831K annual teen MAPMAPMonthly Active PeopleCore Meta engagement metric counting distinct people active on a platform in a month. Paired with DAP in internal goal-setting; the MAP/DAP ratio is used as a measure of how frequently a monthly user returns.Full entry ↗ drop from defaulting both primary and secondary teen accounts to private." "We have previously announced this update in December as part of our age collection announcement and have discussed since then - reversing course will harm our credibility with press and external stakeholders." "We have repeatedly heard from safety stakeholders that moving to private by default for teen accounts is the safest experience we can offer."