Whether we like it or not, social media is a part of our lives now and it can be a little scary embracing it.“It’s like Coca-Cola inventing a kids’ soda product.” There is also a blocking and reporting feature built in and parents get immediately notified when their child blocks someone. Your children won't be able to delete conversations and parents have full access to everything their kids say and do on the app. “One of the things we found over and over again is that kids look at communications as play, and so we wanted to make this as playful as possible,” said Loren Cheng, Facebook’s director of product management. It allows the children to chat with individuals and groups and use interactive filters and sounds. It's called Messenger Kids and it's not a standalone app, but a feature within a parent's personal Facebook account that they can use to ensure they get supervised exposure to social media.Ĭurrently, the app is only available for Apple products and is targeted to kids aged 6-11. Facebook has recently come out with a perfect compromise for this. There are so many parents out there who believe that shielding their children from social media for as long as possible is a good thing to do. It's a well-known fact that kids these days are familiar when it comes to technology from iPads to phones and computers they've got a much better understanding of it that sometimes we think we do!īut one thing we're not sure we want them mastering from a young age is social media, Facebook especially.

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