New Feature from Instagram; Missing Child Alarm
Founded in 2010, the popular social media platform Instagram continues to appear with a new feature every day. Gathering attention with its latest project, Instagram took action for the missing children with its new update called "Amber Alerts". The feature, which was launched in honor of May 25, World Missing Children's Day, will allow missing children in the region to see and share their notifications.
Instagram will be active in more than 25 countries in the next two weeks, attracting attention with its new update called “Amber Alerts”.
In Emily Vacher's statement; “With the new feature, there will be a warning in the Instagram feed for users in the search section. The alert will include all known information such as a picture, description and location of the abduction. Afterwards, users will share the warning to spread the news. Initially available in 25 countries, the feature will be available in many, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg. He also plans to expand the feature to more countries in the future.”
With this app you will be able to activate the police alarm
While noting that if an Amber alert is enabled by the police with this update and you are in the designated search area, the alert will appear on your Instagram feed, the platform also states that it uses available information such as the city listed on a user's profile, IP address if turned on, and location services.
The reason for this is to determine who will show the alerts. In this way, it is aimed to find a child thought to be lost within a few hours.