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NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is advancing for your kids.
The amusing media behemothic is ablution a messaging app for accouchement to babble with their parents and with accompany accustomed by their parents.
The chargeless app is aimed at kids beneath 13, who can't yet accept their own accounts beneath Facebook's rules, admitting they generally do.
Messenger Kids comes with a bulk of controls for parents. The annual won't let accouchement add their own accompany or annul letters — alone parents can do that. Kids don't get a abstracted Facebook or Messenger account; rather, it's an addendum of a parent's account. Messenger Kids came out Monday in the U.S. as an app for Apple accessories — the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Versions for Android and Amazon's tablets are advancing later.
A KIDS-FOCUSED EXPERIENCE
While accouchement do use messaging and amusing media apps brash for teenagers and adults, those casework aren't congenital for them, said Kristelle Lavallee, a children's attitude able who brash Facebook on designing the service.
"The accident of acknowledgment to things they were not developmentally able for is huge," she said.
Messenger Kids, meanwhile, "is a aftereffect of seeing what kids like," which is images, emoji and the like. Face filters and antic masks can be confusing for adults, Lavallee said, but for kids who are aloof acquirements how to anatomy relationships and break in blow with parents digitally, they are means to accurate themselves.
Lavallee, who is agreeable architect at the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University, alleged Messenger Kids a "useful tool" that "makes parents the gatekeepers." But she said that while Facebook fabricated the app "with the best of intentions," it's not yet accepted how bodies will absolutely use it.
As with added accoutrement Facebook has appear in the past, intentions and real-world use do not consistently bout up. Facebook's alive video alive feature, for example, has been acclimated for affluence of banal and advantageous things, but additionally to beck crimes and suicides.
HOOKED ON FACEBOOK
Is Messenger Kids artlessly a way for Facebook to braiding in the adolescent ones?
Stephen Balkam, CEO of the nonprofit Family Online Safety Institute, said "that alternation has larboard the station."
Federal law prohibits internet companies from accession claimed advice on kids beneath 13 after their parents' permission and imposes restrictions on announcement to them. This is why Facebook and abounding added amusing media companies prohibit adolescent kids from joining. Even so, Balkam said millions of kids beneath 13 are already on Facebook, with or after their parents' approval.
He said Facebook is aggravating to accord with the bearings pragmatically by council adolescent Facebook users to a annual brash for them.
MARKETING MATTERS
Facebook said Messenger Kids won't appearance ads or aggregate abstracts for marketing, admitting it will aggregate some abstracts it says are all-important to run the service. Facebook additionally said it won't automatically move users to the approved Messenger or Facebook back they get old enough, admitting the aggregation ability accord them the advantage to move contacts to Messenger bottomward the line.
James Steyer, CEO of the kids-focused non-profit accumulation Common Sense, said that while he admired the abstraction of a messaging app that requires affectionate sign-ups, abounding questions remain. Among them: Will it consistently abide ad-free, and will parents get ads based on the service?
"Why should parents artlessly assurance that Facebook is acting in the best absorption of kids?" Steyer said in a statement. "We animate Facebook to analyze their behavior from the alpha so that it is altogether bright what parents are signing up for."
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