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This is the first time I've read something positive about FB that too on a post involving kids, Thanks for sharing. But what do you think is the endgame for Fa

This is the first time I've read something positive about FB that too on a post involving kids, Thanks for sharing. But what do you think is the endgame for Facebook in providing a service for kids which are approved by the parents? None other than improving their prospects of LTV i.e. getting the 6 year old invested in the platform so they could yield conversions when 13(or what ever the age in which they get access to broader content i.e. Ads). So the real question here to a parent is, Do you want your child to get invested in a platform which has consistently proven to be unethical, immoral, indulge in outright illegal activities or has been attributed with degrading democracies around the world? May be Facebook wouldn't sell the data of kids until they're 13 or 18 but If I'm a parent I wouldn't want even my 18 year old to do anything with a platform like Facebook.

urthor 5y ago
> So the real question here to a parent is, Do you want your child to get invested in a platform which has consistently proven to be unethical, immoral, indulge in outright illegal activities or has been attributed with degrading democracies around the world? Without commenting on any of the wider topics. Let he who is without a misspent youth on 4chan cast the first stone. Castigating parents for making bad choices around their children's online behavior seems a bit unfair. I'd say it's safe to say the kids are off on their own after a certain age, and making their own choices on the world wide web. The vast majority of parents are not IT professionals and not up for the task of closely filtering access to the entire internet. Not one bit of this can be solved by pushing the responsibility on individual parents.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  I agree with your on the broader context of a parent being unable to control what a kid does online (or) on the question on whether a parent should really do that; But the parent(thread parent) specifically states that they allow the Messenger of Kids because that allows greater control over their kid's messaging activities and so my question simply is regarding the trust they place on the platform which provides that.

urthor 5y ago

> So the real question here to a parent is, Do you want your child to get invested in a platform which has consistently proven to be unethical, immoral, indulge in outright illegal activities or has been attributed with degrading democracies around the world? Without commenting on any of the wider topics. Let he who is without a misspent youth on 4chan cast the first stone. Castigating parents for making bad choices around their children's online behavior seems a bit unfair. I'd say it's safe to say the kids are off on their own after a certain age, and making their own choices on the world wide web. The vast majority of parents are not IT professionals and not up for the task of closely filtering access to the entire internet. Not one bit of this can be solved by pushing the responsibility on individual parents.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
I agree with your on the broader context of a parent being unable to control what a kid does online (or) on the question on whether a parent should really do that; But the parent(thread parent) specifically states that they allow the Messenger of Kids because that allows greater control over their kid's messaging activities and so my question simply is regarding the trust they place on the platform which provides that.