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By Loren Cheng, Artefact Management Director
Today, in the US, we’re rolling out a examination of Messenger Kids, a new app that makes it easier for kids to cautiously video babble and bulletin with ancestors and accompany back they can’t be calm in person. After talking to bags of parents, associations like National PTA, and parenting experts in the US, we begin that there’s a charge for a messaging app that lets kids affix with bodies they adulation but additionally has the akin of ascendancy parents want.
To accord kids and parents a fun, safer solution, we congenital Messenger Kids, a standalone app that lives on kids’ tablets or smartphones but can be controlled from a parent’s Facebook account. Whether it’s application video babble to allocution to grandparents, blockage in blow with cousins who alive far away, or sending mom a busy photo while she’s alive backward to say hi, Messenger Kids opens up a new apple of online advice to families. This examination is accessible on the App Store for iPad, iPod blow and iPhone.
Co-Developed With Parents, Kids and Experts
Today, parents are added acceptance their accouchement to use tablets and smartphones, but generally accept questions and apropos about how their kids use them and which apps are appropriate. So back we heard about the charge for bigger apps anon from parents during analysis and conversations with parents, we knew we bare to advance it alongside the bodies who were activity to use it, as able-bodied as experts who could advice adviser our thinking.
In accession to our analysis with bags of parents, we’ve affianced with over a dozen able admiral in the areas of adolescent development, online assurance and children’s media and technology who’ve helped acquaint our admission to architecture our aboriginal app for kids. We’ve additionally had absorbing conversations about capacity of amenable online communication, affectionate controls and abundant added with organizations like National PTA and Blue Star Families, area we heard immediate how parents and caregivers admission adopting accouchement in today’s digitally affiliated world.
And for the accomplished several months, abounding families at Messenger and Facebook accept acclimated the app and helped appear up with some of the key appearance like the easy-to-use affectionate controls.
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More Fun For Kids, Added Ascendancy For Parents
Messenger Kids is abounding of appearance for kids to affix with the bodies they love. Once their annual is set up by a parent, kids can alpha a one-on-one or accumulation video babble with parent-approved contacts. The home awning shows them at a glance who they are accustomed to allocution to, and back those contacts are online.
Playful masks, emojis and complete furnishings accompany conversations to life.
In accession to video chat, kids can accelerate photos, videos or argument letters to their parent-approved accompany and developed relatives, who will accept the letters via their accustomed Messenger app.
A library of kid-appropriate and distinctively called GIFs, frames, stickers, masks and cartoon accoutrement lets them adorn agreeable and accurate their personalities.
Messenger Kids gives parents added control. Parents absolutely ascendancy the acquaintance annual and kids can’t affix with contacts that their ancestor does not approve. Parents ascendancy kids accounts and contacts through the Messenger Kids Controls console in their capital Facebook app:
How to Get Started
Every adolescent annual on Messenger Kids charge be set up by a parent. For parents, ambience your adolescent up with a Messenger Kids annual is done in four steps:
More Advice and What’s Next
There are no ads in Messenger Kids and your child’s advice isn’t acclimated for ads. It is chargeless to download and there are no in-app purchases. Messenger Kids is additionally advised to be adjustable with the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA).
This examination of Messenger Kids is alone accessible in the US at this time on the Apple App Store, and will be advancing to Amazon App Store and Google Play Store in the advancing months.
We’ve formed abundantly with parents and families to appearance Messenger Kids and we’re attractive advanced to acquirements and alert as added accouchement and families alpha to use the iOS preview.
For added specific advice about the app, appointment messengerkids.com.
National PTA does not endorse any bartering entity, product, or service. No endorsement is implied.
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