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It's very difficult to imagine 'Instagram for Kids' being a good thing. Messenger for Kids is a bit of a gateway drug, getting them on FB & around COPPA. Given the myriad of challenges around identity, self-esteem and other things, esp for under13s, this doesn't seem wise at all. https://t.co/HimVIdubBF
— Tama Leaver (@tamaleaver) March 19, 2021
Pedophiles and child sex traffickers will use this as a grocery store. https://t.co/z849F35CPI
— Amy Gaeta (@GaetaAmy) March 19, 2021
The way bullying is going to get worse with this. No. https://t.co/53nRBp5AF2
— Pearl Low | 劉寶珠? (@Fumi_chun) March 19, 2021
Do not let your children do this. Seriously. Do not. https://t.co/cxXMQw5zwO
— Greg Pak (@gregpak) March 19, 2021
I saw somebody in some other thread say “Instagroom,” which is really all that needs to be said about this atrocious idea. https://t.co/Kl8hH2Mdhg
— Will Wilkinson ? (@willwilkinson) March 19, 2021
Finally, an app for all those kids who see an age requirement online and don’t just say they were born in 1903 https://t.co/SNn2crTq7p
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) March 18, 2021
There are many concerns. Instagram doesn't even have a handle yet on abuse, bullying, and predation of teens currently on its platform. There is also a growth aspect to this: capturing a segment of users that will then get pulled into the FB ecosystem. https://t.co/eeCBDQpUHK
— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) March 18, 2021
The only thing they should be building is a doomsday machine for their server rooms https://t.co/o5kCzxT3fJ
— QAA Podcast (@QanonAnonymous) March 18, 2021
Facebook is building an Instagram for children under the age of 13, based on internal docs and interview with @mosseri. My latest with @CraigSilverman.https://t.co/eeCBDQpUHK
— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) March 18, 2021
This is what we call, “DEAD on arrival“ in my house. https://t.co/AEvbGztV7E
— Chris Cristi (@abc7chriscristi) March 18, 2021
The Victorians had their kids working in the coal mines. About time we sent ours to the content mines. https://t.co/lSCgin4EJf
— Scott Lucas (@scottlucas) March 18, 2021
Lol. Hard nope. https://t.co/84g7Z0rvBQ
— Alex Rainert ??♂️ (@arainert) March 18, 2021
I feel barely in control of Messenger Kids. https://t.co/0MkzmA9ZQa
— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) March 18, 2021
been crackin up about the art @BuzzFeedNewsArt made for this story for the last hour https://t.co/eeCBDQpUHK
— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) March 18, 2021
Not content to sow anxiety, isolation, fear of missing out, and depression in the lives of teenagers, @Facebook @instagram now turn to children https://t.co/PHY3OHvbFW
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 19, 2021
Let's file this under "things the world doesn't need" https://t.co/rRRGs4CRpN
— Clare Garvie (@ClareAngelyn) March 18, 2021
v curious to see how this is gonna work from a coppa perspective, aka not be super duper illegal https://t.co/goW6KtRuia
— shoshana wodinsky (@swodinsky) March 18, 2021
Oh sure. Can’t see any way in which this would go drastically and catastrophically wrong. https://t.co/yXGan6eDIb
— Eliza Barr (@ElizaJBarr) March 18, 2021
HEY KIDS do you have the true heart of a poster?
— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) March 18, 2021
Well, good news: internal docs reveal that Instagram is building a version for children under 13. @RMac18 and me have the details:https://t.co/8dJh9sw7UI
I do not think it would even be possible to conceive of a worse idea than this https://t.co/oAzv9MOrMl
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) March 19, 2021
You can bet Facebook executives and employees won’t be putting their own kids on it. https://t.co/aVm3gVsvdU
— David Carroll (@profcarroll) March 19, 2021
Curious how many kids under 13 are already using Instagram even though they're not supposed to. https://t.co/fGdOUU9pA2
— Queenie Wong (@QWongSJ) March 18, 2021
Would you let your pre-teens use Instagram's new kid-friendly version?https://t.co/Jp7sT9BSjg
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) March 19, 2021
But what do I do about a 12 year old who tells me, nonstop, that she needs a Roblox TikTok account??? https://t.co/E2rfC8CsWD
— Michael Luo (@michaelluo) March 18, 2021
The only people a *child* really needs to “connect” with is their parents & their *local* network of school & the neighbourhood. That is QUITE enough. Zuck does NOT have the best interests of children at heart. He will NEVER allow his own children on this.https://t.co/xuXV7pg2uN
— Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher) March 19, 2021
What could possibly, ever, in any way shape or form, go wrong. https://t.co/5t3bU3M3OF
— David Chartier (@chartier) March 18, 2021
This is low-key uncomfortable...knowing everything we do about the corrosion of attention spans & addictions that can come with using social media. Maybe just let kids be kids and don't try to hook 'em up to the crack cocaine so early? https://t.co/CQ1305nktV
— Josh Edwards (@JoshEdwardsFilm) March 18, 2021
What could go wrong?? https://t.co/KmyXPrD3yJ
— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) March 18, 2021
I think this needs to be thought through “just a bit” before implementing. Could be that this attracts the very thing that it’s trying to protect against... https://t.co/MGumYSW7k3
— Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) March 19, 2021
These dudes truly won’t be satisfied until they make life worse for every segment of the population. https://t.co/hZP03KoOy3
— what is proctoring if not surveillance persevering (@hypervisible) March 18, 2021
So they plan on exploiting Black kids without reciprocal affirmation even earlier ?? https://t.co/CfUd7GSr06
— ???Sydette Dread Gorgon ?? ? (@Blackamazon) March 18, 2021
Yes. Also, in researching on insta, I came across child influencer accounts with 100K+ followers, accounts run by parents. These kids are younger than 13, yet it's allowed? I'm curious what protection is in place now for these kids before expanding the age range. https://t.co/Nlf2rKUVIO
— Carly Miller (@carlymil) March 19, 2021
?the leaders have identified "youth work" as a "priority" https://t.co/ESUGl2xMTx via @RMac18
— CeciliaKang (@ceciliakang) March 18, 2021
Hey parents, if you love how Facebook is exploiting and manipulating you, you’re gonna love it’s new feature to track and exploit your kids. I mean, you really can’t make this stuff up. ??♀️ https://t.co/hTcMsChkIr
— Jessica J. González (@JGo4Justice) March 18, 2021
“Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13”
— Peter W. Singer (@peterwsinger) March 18, 2021
Seriously, do they learn nothing at all???? https://t.co/iw8IOI8or3
After seeing the internal docs, I asked @mosseri about it. He said there is no "detailed plan." The thinking was that kids want to join Instagram anyway and that FB wanted to build a product with safeguards and age verification with tracking for parents. https://t.co/eeCBDQpUHK
— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) March 18, 2021
Get them hooked early/young and build profiles of them for ad targeting. Or as Facebook calls it: "connecting people" https://t.co/jLcewzVTor
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) March 18, 2021
The discourse on this site about a potential Instagram Kids helps demonstrate:
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) March 19, 2021
1) How little people understand about the child safety disaster that is the current social media world.
2) Why counterproductive laws like COPPA are never re-examined.
this is pure evil from Facebook
— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) March 19, 2021
when are our pathetic politicians going to outlaw this kind of corporate child abuse
kids under 13 shouldn't have smartphones let alone Instagram accounts #MoreHumanhttps://t.co/5WamcAq8Fn
THE WORLD: How could @facebook get any worse?
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 18, 2021
FACEBOOK: https://t.co/exZ1FhkQmY
At some point, we will look at social media for kids under 13 like we look at cigarettes targeted to minors. https://t.co/S1O42KE46S
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 19, 2021
gentlemen, start your verifiable parental consent engines https://t.co/uWDGa1vdjG
— Lindsey Barrett (@LAM_Barrett) March 18, 2021
Nothing except everything @ekp https://t.co/dPzcPOnlYB
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) March 19, 2021
NEW: Facebook is planning to build a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, according to an internal company post https://t.co/cCJWnrK9C6
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 18, 2021
...because that’s exactly what the world needs, more social media for children #fuckfacebookhttps://t.co/dZ2bGJ98FT
— LandmanLife ™ (@LandmanLife) March 19, 2021
Facebook on Friday said it is working on Instagram for kids under age 13 where parents will have controls just like Messenger Kids.https://t.co/1yLx8Cb05A
— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) March 19, 2021