{"id":105024,"date":"2018-02-20T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105024"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:39:23","slug":"facebook-ignores-experts-warning-rolls-out-android-app-for-six-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-ignores-experts-warning-rolls-out-android-app-for-six-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ignores experts\u2019 warning and rolls out Android app for six-year-olds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay, so the headline\u2019s a little misleading \u2013 <\/span>Messenger Kids<\/span><\/a> is for children <\/span>six <\/b>and above<\/i><\/b>. And Facebook has <\/span>only ignored the advice of the experts<\/b> it hasn\u2019t paid off<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

So <\/span>that\u2019s fine<\/b>, then. <\/span><\/p>\n

But most of the <\/span>experts who haven\u2019t received funding<\/b> from Zuckerberg\u2019s <\/span>Panopticon<\/span><\/a> think that the new app will lead <\/span>to a more miserable childhood<\/b> for many, and <\/span>have told Facebook so<\/span><\/a> in no uncertain terms. <\/span><\/p>\n

The girls and boys of <\/span>Menlo Park<\/span><\/a> are <\/span>keen to get kids hooked on their brand<\/b>, as you currently need to be 13 to join <\/span>Fakebook<\/span><\/a>. Also, the platform is increasingly being <\/span>rejected by younger people<\/span><\/a>, and Messenger Kids is no doubt <\/span>a ploy to help reverse that trend<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Getty Images Okay, so the headline\u2019s a little misleading \u2013 Messenger Kids is for children six and above. And Facebook has only ignored the advice of the experts it hasn\u2019t paid off. So that\u2019s fine, then. But most of the experts who haven\u2019t received funding from Zuckerberg\u2019s Panopticon think that the new app will … Continue reading “Facebook ignores experts\u2019 warning and rolls out Android app for six-year-olds”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1082,2353,1059,1063,1040,1035],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-android","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-messaging-apps","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328268,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105024\/revisions\/328268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105024"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105024"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105024"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}