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Facebook Messenger Kids App Is Expanding (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

Facebook's controversial Messenger Kids app is heading outside the U.S. to Canada and Peru. From a report: As part of the expansion, the social networking giant said Friday that it would also debut Spanish and French language versions of the children's messaging app that are now available in all three countries where the service is available. Facebook introduced Messenger Kids in December, pitching it as a safer way for children under 13 to chat with friends while sending them silly GIFs, emoji, and other goofy digital imagery. Unlike the core Facebook social networking service or other messaging apps, Facebook said that Messenger Kids does not display any online ads or allow kids to buy things within the app.

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  1. Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

    What parent, in their conscious, stable mind would allow his/her kids on facebook? Intelligent, thinking people should have already deleted their accounts.

    1. Re:Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

      I instructed facebook to delete mine 5 years ago. Now, whether it was actually deleted or not is another question.

    2. Re:Think People by alvinrod · · Score: 1

      Well based on your own statement, it must logically be the unintelligent, unthinking people with kids.

    3. Re:Think People by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Intelligent, thinking people should have already deleted their accounts.

      Truly intelligent, thinking people never had one to begin with.

    4. Re:Think People by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      No kidding. Facebook is creepy as hell if you're an adult, it's orders of magnitude creepier when it starts preying on children.

    5. Re:Think People by Desler · · Score: 2

      You’re not kidding.

    6. Re:Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

      Show your face coward.

    7. Re:Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

      Obviously, logically.

    8. Re:Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

      Perhaps, except that I forced myself to get an account years ago to learn about what my daughter was about to get into. It didn't take long. So I stick to my original assertion about intelligence. The intelligent human learns from his/her mistakes. ...Actually, dumb monkeys do to. The rest of the human race? Hmm...Trump is still president.

    9. Re:Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

      LMAO!!!

    10. Re: Think People by TiberiusKirk · · Score: 1

      You mean Vlad and Un? Bubba already gave up his vote and his ass.

  2. Ok, I'm signing up ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... under an assumed name and encouraging all my Friends to do the same.

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    It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
  3. They’re hooking up kids with pedos by Desler · · Score: 1

    This is just Facebook implementing features based on their user surveys.

  4. Thank god cyber bullies would never use this by Kwirl · · Score: 1

    i mean, ugh - as if kids need more avenues to be assaulted by uncontrolled assholes.