Instagram first started asking users to provide a birthday on their account in 2019.

However, users with an older account were omitted from the process, at least until now.

Instagram has finally started asking more users to add their birthdays to continue viewing sensitive content.

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It warns that soonincluding your birthday in your account informationwill not be optional.

It also helps clean up the overall content users can see.

And Instagram isnt the only social media site doing similar things.

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Google, YouTube, and even TikTok have also started making moves to protect their younger users.