Facebook Is Developing a Version of Instagram for Children Under 13

[bousozoku]

it's easy to blame parents. i kept my son off of social media till he was 15, but you can't raise kids in a vacuum. they spend most of the day at school with their peers and not under the parent's guidance. when at home they are doing homework or some other extra curricular crap. there is very little home life and the influence on kids is mostly their peers. when you have an argument with your kids it's you vs your child plus his peers plus social media. you will lose most of the time.

If you don't set the rules very early, you're at their mercy.

 

[beanbaguk]

Facebook and all its garbage needs to disappear. The world would be a better place without them.

 

[DarthDon]

Leave everything where is Facebook in. Delete the crap. Safe your children.

We have now More than enough alternatives.

 

[RockinDev]

Just what the world needs...

 

[iGobbleoff]

Here's an idea for Facebook. Develop instagram into an app that doesn't scrape as much ***** data as it can, and go back to a normal timeline. Douchebags.

 

[incoherent_1]

When will people wake up and realize social media is a cancer on our society?

 

[kc9hzn]

I don’t see how Instagram could profitably run a service for the under-13 crowd (ignoring how unhealthy it would be, of course) without violating COPPA. It would have to be a loss-leader intended just to keep young people in the Instagram ecosystem, as there’s really no way to profitably advertise to children (especially given Facebook’s dependence on targeted advertising and unfamiliarity with non-targeted advertising, which would be required for COPPA compliance).