Facebook on Wednesday launched its Messenger Kids app for 70 new countries including India. The company says that this will help children to face challenges like distance learning and isolation during the corona virus lockdown. This app is for children below 13 years and a new feature will also be added to it, so that parents will be able to approve new connections. This feature will first start coming to the US and then to other countries.
Facebook's Gleable Head of Safety Antigone Davis said in her blog post that schools are closed and people are following social distancing, so more than a technology riddle for parents to connect their children with friends and family Taking help.
Parents can control
He said that Messenger Kids is a video chat and messaging app that helps connect children with friends and family that are under control by parents. He told that today they are starting Messenger Kids in more countries and with it are adding a new feature by parents to connect children with friends.
Messenger Kids was launched in the US in 2017 and was later brought to Canada and many other countries. This is for children whose age is too low for a Facebook account. With the changes announced on Wednesday, children will be able to join the group for the convenience of reading and writing under the supervision of their naturals.
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New feature also added
In the US, Canada and Latin America, parents can also allow their children to widen their name and profile photo so that they can make more friends. Children will be able to send their friend request themselves. Till now parents had to do this. Davis said that the parents told them that they want to give their children more freedom to manage their contact list. They would like to do this by releasing their supervision.
Earlier, it was the right of the parents to invite and approve every contact of the child. Now with the new feature, parents can also allow children to approve, add, reject, or remove the contact with which they will have the power to approve or reject any new contact. Some privacy related people have raised the fact that this app can be dangerous for children as it can be taken from them.
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