# Safeguarding - disabling profiles and chats for young people

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/safeguarding-disabling-profiles-and-chats-for-young-people/267773
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** groups, search, chat
**Created:** [June 9, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/safeguarding-disabling-profiles-and-chats-for-young-people/267773 "2023-06-09T09:11:06Z")
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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/safeguarding-disabling-profiles-and-chats-for-young-people/267773/3 "2023-06-10T21:07:46Z")

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Hello 👋

> [@Lize\_Gibson](#):
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> Disable the ability for our under 18s to chat with anyone including each other - would be cool to allow over 18s to chat with each other so a targeted disabling

Does what Nat posted in this topic help?

> [@Security for underage users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/security-for-underage-users/12783/15):
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> Thanks to @martin a while back we introduced personal message enabled groups and direct message enabled groups. This should serve your purpose! You can create a “above-18” group and use it here.

I’m not sure about the second question. Perhaps a plugin?

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