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?

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

— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) March 18, 2021

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”

Seriously, do they learn nothing at all???? https://t.co/iw8IOI8or3

— Peter W. Singer (@peterwsinger) March 18, 2021

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:

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.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) March 19, 2021

this is pure evil from Facebook

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

— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) March 19, 2021

THE WORLD: How could @facebook get any worse?

FACEBOOK: https://t.co/exZ1FhkQmY

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 18, 2021

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