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What is Messenger Kids?

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It’s a free messaging app, created by Facebook,
that’s aimed at kids under 13.

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It has all the fun features that tweens love:
live photo filters, video chatting, GIFs, and more.

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Here’s how it works: Parents get to approve
all the contacts, which reduces the chance

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of kids of chatting with strangers or encountering
really iffy content.

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Plus, there are no ads.

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Sounds harmless, right?

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Well not necessarily.

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For starters, unsupervised kids can take pictures
of just about anything, meaning there's no

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guarantee that what’s shared is always kid-appropriate.

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Also, Facebook collects and stores the contents
of your kids’ messages and monitors their

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usage, which raises questions of privacy and
data security.

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So be sure to talk to your kids about the
do’s and don’ts of social media and consider

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reading the app's privacy policy before downloading.

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For our full review of Messenger Kids, visit
us at commonsense.org.