Messenger Kids - Facebook Chat App for Children

Facebook brings kids chat-app for children

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The accounts in the "Messenger Kids" can only be created by the parents, once the account has been set up it can be controlled by an adult or Parents/Guides Facebook account.

Facebook offers for the first time a service for children under the age of 13 years. Kids in the "Messenger" they are in a protected environment with family members and communicate with each other. Each new contact must be approved by the parents.

Menlo Park - Facebook initially starts in the United States and will be launching in the US from Monday, for the first time a chat-app especially for children. The accounts in the "Messenger Kids" can only be created by the parents, this messenger for kids will allow children to share pics, text to have a video call and to talk as well.

In the app will not display advertising, and your data were not evaluated for display, emphasized the world's largest online network. With the registration at the children's Messenger will also no Facebook profile is created. The app is available for children between the ages of six to twelve years.

After the American provisions for the protection of children online services such as Facebook users may only from the age of 13 years for their standard versions without special control mechanisms. In practice, however, often even younger children log on by entering a wrong date of birth and are subject to hazards.

Facebook itself refers to a survey, according to which 80 percent of the children between the ages of 8 and 13 years of age had begun to use social media. The online services, which massive trouble with the American consumer protection supervision FTC threatens them if they do not protect minors on their platforms, therefore more secure areas for smaller children.

"Messenger Kids": Start date is still open

However, not all problems solve it: thus, for example, Google's video platform YouTube recently noted that in their service to the kids is not child-friendly, through inappropriate video contents and strangers lurking through video comments. Facebook uses various protective measures in Messenger kids.

If children want to add each other as contacts, it must be approved by the parents on both sides of the responsible person, said Loren Cheng. The children can do nothing in the Messenger by deleting, Kids have no access to the content of conversations from their own devices.

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