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Child Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook's Kids App (apnews.com)
A group letter sent Tuesday to CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that younger children -- the app is intended for those under 13 -- aren't ready to have social media accounts, navigate the complexities of online relationships or protect their own privacy. From a report: Facebook launched the free Messenger Kids app in December, pitching it as a way for children to chat with family members and parent-approved friends. It doesn't give kids separate Facebook or Messenger accounts. Rather, the app works as an extension of a parent's account, and parents get controls such as the ability to decide who their kids can chat with. The social media giant has said it fills "a need for a messaging app that lets kids connect with people they love but also has the level of control parents want."
But a group of 100 experts, advocates and parenting organizations is contesting those claims. Led by the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, the group includes psychiatrists, pediatricians, educators and the children's music singer Raffi Cavoukian. "Messenger Kids is not responding to a need -- it is creating one," the letter states. "It appeals primarily to children who otherwise would not have their own social media accounts."
But a group of 100 experts, advocates and parenting organizations is contesting those claims. Led by the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, the group includes psychiatrists, pediatricians, educators and the children's music singer Raffi Cavoukian. "Messenger Kids is not responding to a need -- it is creating one," the letter states. "It appeals primarily to children who otherwise would not have their own social media accounts."
We kids will control who our parents communicate with!
Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook
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All your child are belong to us!!!!
They’re basically now at the point where they’ve mostly addicted the older generation, so to maintain long-term profits they need to invent ways to hook the younger generation before they get old enough to think for themselves and realize that Facebook is dumb (and mainly populated with old people nowadays).
#DeleteChrome
Are just making vague generalizations. I know when I was 10 there was no Facebook, but I got an E-mail account,
and I got on Internet Relay Chat, became a regular in dozens of channels --- started helping out users with their technical troubles and abuse issues.
A few years later I was a DALnet Oper and Svs Admin: that was until two events involving DDoS and politics obliterated the pair of servers
whose teams I was on from the network.
I saw the worst of the worst, and turned out just fine, and I didn't have a group of experts saying I "shouldn't socialize or have my own accounts on the internet" --- heck, I registered my own accounts all the time (Admittedly.... often under a pseudonym/fake/assumed name), and there wasn't even any language back then that you needed to be 13.....
Why with the artificial privacy restrictions, when we KNOW very well... that Google knows MORE about us than ourselves and our closest pals?
The only rule for privacy protection is to learn who to trust and who NOT to trust, and large companies are among those NOT to trust.
Any chance that you'd define what you mean by "diversity bullshit"?
How about some 'luddite' actual, in-person social skills instead, Sexconker? We don't need an entire generation of socially-avoidant people because they never leave their houses and interact with their peers in real life.
"Bread and Circuses" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You've watched the movie, I hope? Truman escapes his artificial world in the end.
Unless we're really living in a world where parents have completely abdicated their authority over their children, it should be as simple as telling them "you are forbidden to go on Facebook for any reason" and make it stick -- preferably, leading by example, not having Facebook accounts themselves. If necessary block Facebook access on home computer(s) by locking it out in the household router.
Go back to Russia and tell Putin you failed to influence us yet again, because you've been made.
The better question is whether we want to teach our kids that early in life to prize the superficial, no-strings, unfulfilling "connections" that Facebook, etc. enable.
If you're fed nothing but processed white bread when you're a kid, chances are you'll carry that into adulthood.
When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.
Mitch Hedberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#DeleteFacebook
I remember my first cigarette. It was August, I was on summer break and I was 8 years old. That first drag of the half used cigarette I found on the ground outside the bus station was surprisingly smooth. I always thought that cigarettes would taste bad because they smell so bad, but the smoothness of R. J. Reynolds Brand Camel cigarettes is peerless. Fast forward 35 years later and I am completely addicted to refreshing FaceBook in my browser. God damn you Zuckerberg, you fucking cancer!
FB is using this program to farm/groom users of tomorrow..Just like a pedos would do,offer free candy,toys and ..... would love to read the TOS and what data they collect too.
Jack of all trades,master of none
Some of us are old enough to remember the first inter-racial kiss on TV, Kirk and a cute green skinned woman, which was our introduction to diversity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
*They* always get you through schools. this messenger will become way for teachers to interact with kids.
Why do want to hear what a closed minded white racist has to say about diversity? I grew up hearing their bullshit. It's harmful, hateful and only puts themselves behind everyone else. They are be moved to the back of the train little by little with each generation and if they can't see it now, thier kids will or thier kids will.
Acceptance of diversity will help you get along better and propel not just yourself but humanity forward, all humans regardless of color. The negativity of the white privilege folks is going to bury them.
Thank you! In my profession, Iâ(TM)ve seen many examples of young children with their own Facebook accounts (sometimes with their parentsâ(TM) blessing) who got into some kind of trouble with them, usually involving harassment, exposure of private information, and sometimes worse. I began to think that having a limited, parent-monitored account option would prevent some or perhaps many of these incidents from occurring. I generally agree that social media use by young children is not healthy. Nonetheless, there are parents who will allow it. I wonder what led the group to claim that âoeIt appeals primarily to children who otherwise would not have their own social media accounts.â While I admit there might be some appeal to that population, based on my experience I believe it would primarily appeal to parents of children who already use Facebook in some fashion, and it would be a better fit for them than a full account. If you limit peopleâ(TM)s options, even with the best of intentions, sometimes you drive them to do more dangerous things than what you were trying to prevent in the first place. While I donâ(TM)t want to take that argument too far (e.g., I donâ(TM)t support legalizing âoesoftâ drugs to prevent people from gravitating to âoehardâ drugs), people should recognize that there is another side to this argument, and that this service may provide a benefit to certain people.
It was a work of fiction, after all.
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