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Facebook Is Developing a Version of Instagram for Children Under 13
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Go away FB. Children are supposed to play outside with their friends in real world. Getting addicted to social media is the last thing they should do.
Get those kids Instagram dependent! Next up: Facebook for toddlers, and Whatsapp for the dead: talk to your great grandparents and ask them for buying advice. Oh wait, didn't we already have dead senators tweeting?
If you think that having your kid glued to Facebook's crap is good for the kid then I understand why we have so many 'useless' millennials
Social networks are not going away like it or not. Whether one is "glued" to them or using them in moderation is the same issue as e.g. with watching TV or playing videogames: both activites were similarly demonized in the past whereas both can have their rightful place in our lives.
This isn't weird at all. What parents wouldn't want Mark Zuckerberg watching their young children using a special app designed just for them. Nope, not weird and creepy at all.
I swear, social networking apps and companies like Facebook are the creepiest things on the internet.
I swear, social networking apps and companies like Facebook are the creepiest things on the internet.
With FB's track record and creepy habit of stealing and spying on people's privacy... I wonder if they are now desperately trying to get in trouble by creating an app for children so young that it's illegal to interact with them in every way.
Yea great. Let little kids get hooked on the Zuckerberg drug...
This isn't a good thing for young minds. Even as adults people get addicted to things but what happens if you addict kids? What happens to their minds? I really do not want to know. I don't even think it is a good idea to post pics or talk about kids online at all.
People said:
- video games are dangerous for the youth
- rock and rap music is dangerous for the youth
- Elvis’s hips are evil and dangerous for the youth
- books are dangerous for the youth
Need I go on?
Parents will ultimately have the final say over their children’s activities. Mine won’t be on Instagram. But it’s not my decision as to what someone else’s child is permitted to do.
edit: ninja’d by another post with the same sentiment.
I will say this: one must opt into Facebook. I don’t have a problem with Instagram because I choose not to use it.
I do have a problem with implicit use like Google where you are “subscribed” whether you have an account or not.
- video games are dangerous for the youth
- rock and rap music is dangerous for the youth
- Elvis’s hips are evil and dangerous for the youth
- books are dangerous for the youth
Need I go on?
Parents will ultimately have the final say over their children’s activities. Mine won’t be on Instagram. But it’s not my decision as to what someone else’s child is permitted to do.
edit: ninja’d by another post with the same sentiment.
I will say this: one must opt into Facebook. I don’t have a problem with Instagram because I choose not to use it.
I do have a problem with implicit use like Google where you are “subscribed” whether you have an account or not.
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I know the 70s and 80s had some obscure music, but really, you could have just said D#./me is glad to have grown up in the 70/80s long before all that c### started
/me is glad to not have any kids that could get poisoned by something like that
/me fears to live as an old man in a world controlled by kids grown up on this
This doesn’t need to exist. I worry about it becoming a haven for pedophiles. There are just too many risks.
I guess this is one way to fight the revenue loss caused by Apple's upcoming anti-tracking rules - expand your user base by going younger.
Anyone else feeling this is a really bad idea?
Gotta get 'em early to condition them to be tracked...
