A recent report by The Washington Post looked at the ways parents use - or, often, don’t use - privacy settings on social media, which got us thinking. It’s well and good providing these tools, but if they aren’t being used effectively, members are potentially still exposed to a variety of unwanted content. How should this be addressed?

Should these kinds of privacy tools be subtractive and set to the highest settings as default, allowing members to opt in to seeing the content? Or would additive controls be better, under which all content is allowed, and the option to add further restrictions is available in the member profile settings? Or perhaps there are entirely different ways to approach this?

Let us know in the comments!