Facebook launches Messenger Kids with additional parental controls in India

Amid coronavirus lockdown, Facebook has reportedly launched messenger kids with more parental controls in India. During movement restrictions when kids are confined at home practicing social distancing rms, company has introduced a kids-oriented video chat service messenger that can connect m with friends with control under parents. 

Previously launched in US in 2017 and later in Cana and Peru in 2018, feature has w reached India with revised protocols. Earlier, only parents could approve and invite contacts for children to be friends with. However, Facebook w allows parents to let kids accept, reject, d, or remove contacts, while y still can override a contact from parent approval dashboard. This feature, kwn as “supervised friending” enables kids to explore contacts while parents can still supervise activity. 

Antigone Davis, Global He of Safety at Facebook, told press conference while launch that parents will get tification whenever  kids friend somebody. He ded that it would give m authority to override contact if y choose to via parent dashboard. dashboard also helps to keep a tab on recent activity, he furr explained. 

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Powerful opportunity for parents

Dr. Lewis Bernstein, a member of Facebook''s Youth visors and former executive vice president of education and research at Sesame Workshop reportedly said that messenger for kids was a powerful opportunity for parents to connect with kids over teachable moments about life-long skills to choose appropriate connections.  

Speaking about features of app, Facebook said in a statement on its website, “Facebook has done a good job of balancing features that both deliver right information to keep parents in loop about ir child’s use of Messenger Kids, while also allowing children to have fun and learn digital literacy skills.” 

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