Safety and control
Age and safety protections
Check the adult age requirement and understand locked safety settings and reporting.
Glob Social's current age requirement is 18 or older. Check Using Glob Social in the Terms of Service before joining. A protected setting visible in the app is not an invitation for a younger person to join.
The app also has safety protections for accounts classified as teen or whose age has not been established. These protections explain why some settings can appear locked even when a control is visible.
Joining and restricted access
Your first sign-in asks When were you born? once. Signing in and receiving an invitation are separate from meeting the age requirement.
Do not use someone else's age or account to get around an age restriction. If the account's age state appears wrong, contact [email protected] for help. A friend, room owner or group administrator cannot change the account's age restrictions for you.
Locked safety settings
Open Settings → Privacy & security → Safety to read the settings that apply to your account. Protected accounts keep these choices locked:
| Setting | Protected choice |
|---|---|
| Search-engine indexing of profile and authored nodes | Off. |
| Adults following the account | Off. |
| Named cursor and presence | Off. |
| Show me as online | Off. |
| Leaving Glob warning | Every visit outside known-good domains. |
Their direct-message setting is also restricted to Friends only. The app refuses a change that would remove these protections. A message such as These protections are locked for teen accounts. identifies an account restriction, rather than a failed click.
The presence settings govern online and cursor identification. They do not make a message anonymous when its author chooses to send it.
Contact and visit restrictions
Adults and teen-classified accounts cannot be paired for direct messages or private group-chat participation. Their friendship and dimension-visit rules also prevent an adult and teen being paired. Protected teen accounts cannot create or redeem dimension invite links.
A room owner's participation settings cannot remove these restrictions. If adding someone to a group or opening a conversation is refused, respect the refusal rather than trying another invitation format.
Glob Social does not provide a parent dashboard or linked guardian controls. Do not treat a shared sign-in, a group administrator or a friend visit as supervision of another account.
Report a safety concern
Use Report on the content or person and choose Child safety when it applies. That category is offered alongside Harm or threat, Harassment, Copyright and Something else. Add relevant context under What happened?, then wait for the sent confirmation.
Child-safety reports receive priority for human review. If the form fails or there is no suitable button, email [email protected]. For immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
If moderation affects your own content or account and you think it is mistaken, ask for a review through [email protected]. Moderation and appeals explains the available route. Reporting explains how to submit a new concern.
Read the Privacy Policy for data handling, and Privacy controls for the settings themselves.