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Facebook App To Keep Kids From Talking To Strangers Online Fails Its One Job
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, it turns out that letting the company with tons of privacy scandals run a messaging service for children might have been a bad idea. Now there are multiple reports that a pitfall in the design of Facebook’s Messenger Kids app lets children talk to unauthorised users in group chat, aka, exactly…
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Facebook Messenger Is Getting An ‘Unsend Message’ Feature
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t accidentally sent a message to the wrong person in Facebook Messenger. Sometimes it’s even something embarrassing, confidential or bitchy. You know what I’m talking about. Facebook is finally introducing a solution to these proverbial heart-attack inducing moments – and unsend message feature. This is how it…
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Facebook Doubles Down On Controversial App For Kids
Facebook’s messaging service for children has been widely criticised by child health advocates who have urged Mark Zuckerberg to delete the app altogether. But Facebook hasn’t scrapped the chat app for kids as young as six years old. Instead, it’s adding more features and extending its reach.
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Facebook Tries To Make Going ‘FB Official’ Cool Again
Facebook really wants you to make it “FB official”, send your loved one a ton of cascading hearts, communicate in heart-eyes emoji, and keep tabs on your partner’s availability to chat. It’s almost as if Facebook has a fundamental misunderstanding of how people are using its platform.