But, because these services are all about sharing, it’s nearly impossible to operate without collecting personal information. The act requires children younger than 13 to have verifiable parental consent before they can disclose personal information to a commercial service. One of the main reasons social media and messaging services try to block children under 13 is to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. I haven’t seen recent research showing how many pre-teens are using Instagram, Snapcat, Facebook Messenger, Kik and other apps aimed at teens and adults, but I suspect the numbers are into the millions. Later that year, a research team led by danah boyd (she spells her name all lowercase) found that 95 percent of the parents whose 10-year-olds were on Facebook knew about it, and 78 percent of them helped their kids sign up. In 2011, Consumer Reports released research saying that 7.5 million children under 13 were using Facebook in violation of the company’s terms of service that require all users to be 13 or older. The account is just for the Messenger app so don’t worry about your kids being “out there”.This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News The app is easy to use and is very kid-friendly you’d actually want to use it for yourself because of the stress-free environment.Ī Messenger Kids account doesn’t automatically mean a Facebook account for your child. They’re all kid-appropriate so all those group video calls or one-on-one video chats will be more interactive and interesting. To make things more fun, there are emojis, frames, GIFs, and stickers to use. You can’t easily delete messages and they won’t disappear. The environment is controlled mainly by the parents of those 13 years old and below. It simply limits the list of people who can contact and communicate with your children from the Amazon Fire Tablet. Messenger Kids allows safer texting and video calls. The Messenger Kids that is downloadable now from the Amazon Appstore. Of course, parents too must practice (try harder) not to spend much time on social media (ehem, Facebook) but for the kiddos, they can be helped by some monitoring tools their parents can utilize.
Screen time for the children must be regulated. The iOS version for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch has been out since December but it’s only now the Android community can take advantage of it. The Amazon Appstore has just listed the Facebook Messenger Kids app for Android.
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