One of the most popular social media platform Facebook has decided to broaden up by reaching to kids through Messenger Kids. Facebook Messenger has introduced the video calling and messaging app that is designed for children under 13 and has expanded from families in Canada and Peru, to countries outside the US, even as the company receives criticism from child advocacy groups.
On Friday Facebook has announced that Facebook Messenger Kids service would be available in Peru and Canada. As is the part of the augmentation, Facebook is making the app available in Spanish and French ALSO. Messenger Kids will be able to operate independently of other hardware or software that is why it is a standalone application which was introduced In December and it is not related to the Facebook main social network and Facebook Messenger’s regular version.
under 13-year-old kids can sign up on this platform and there is no option for any advertisements in any app purchases on Messenger Kids. Biggest Social Media Network Facebook further said that Messenger Kids was developed in compliance with COPPA that is the law that protects children’s privacy online and the data also will not be used to target any ads. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has got a letter earlier in this year in which more than 100 child health experts urged him to discontinue this app.
As the Messenger kids were launched, it has gone through the criticism from many of the groups such as educational, consumer and child development groups and they were also claiming that it will be very harmful to children and youngsters who are using it and getting more exposure on a social media platform.
In January, Facebook received an open letter from a group of 20 organizations that includes the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, the ACLU, and Parents from the United state of America. In the letter, they called this Messanger Kids app irresponsible and urged to discontinue it. Even CCFC followed up on the letter with a petition that is signed by 21,000 people asking Facebook to discontinue the product.
After receiving petition from many of the larger groups that are pretty much concerned about the kids regarding this Messanger Kids app , Facebook said that it meets regularly with third-party child advocacy groups as it continues to develop the app as well andFacebook further said on the international expansion that it was worked with groups that including Media Smarts in Canada which is concentrated on children’s ability to produce an important information through writing and other forms of communication on this social media platform, Messanger Kids.