The open letter says: "Messenger Kids will likely be the first social media platform widely used by elementary school children [four- to year-olds]. In response, Facebook said: "Since we launched in December we've heard from parents around the country that Messenger Kids has helped them stay in touch with their children and has enabled their children to stay in touch with family members near and far. The letter questions whether there is a need for Facebook to fulfil such a role, saying: "Talking to family and friends over long distances doesn't require a Messenger Kids account.
They can also just pick up a phone. The letter cites a range of research linking teenagers' social media use with increased depression and anxiety. It also cites a study of to year-old girls who are "more likely to idealise thinness, have concerns about their bodies, and to have dieted". Facebook Inc. Inside the company, teams of employees have for years been laying plans to attract preteens that go beyond what is publicly known, spurred by fear that Facebook could lose a new generation of users critical to its future.
Internal Facebook documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show the company formed a team to study preteens, set a three-year goal to create more products for them and commissioned strategy papers about the long-term business opportunities presented by these potential users.
Educate them so they can be prepared for different eventualities, like if strangers send them unsolicited friend requests, or if peers ridicule them about their status updates.
Explain to them that they shouldn't use Facebook to harass classmates they dislike or upload incriminating photos featuring themselves or others. Help them set their privacy settings and make sure they know to never give out personal information online.
Go into detail about all the info that includes, and see how receptive they are to those limitations. For example, uploaded photographs should be examined closely for any particulars that could lead an online predator or cyberbully to your home. More wisely, they should be left off altogether. Are your kids concerned about self-censoring themselves in these sorts of ways? The virtual world is often just as perilous as the real world, so make sure both you and your kids thoroughly understand -- and respect -- the dangers.
If you decide your family is ready to participate on Facebook, negotiate how you will continually follow your kids' online activity to ensure they're safe. They can share their passwords with you, for example, or you can perform random reviews.
It's also smart to check their use of electronic devices through monitoring software, customer support and accounts of your own. If you think they should wait until they're a little older, but they protest about not being able to have an account, there are some alternative online social networks they can enjoy that are more kid friendly and more closely monitored by responsible adults such as Kidzworld, Togetherville and Club Penguin.
Cyberbullying is nothing but evidence: a permanent digital record. So how did we get to the point where it became more problematic than real-world bullying? To me, the greatest trick social-media and telecom companies ever pulled is trying to convince us that they can do nothing about cyberbullying.
In terms of digital forensics, it is a cybercrime with big fingerprints. Using an approach that I am calling the math of cyberbullying, both victims and perpetrators can be identified. How hard would it be to create an algorithm to identify antisocial behavior, bullying, or harassment online? I am actively working with a tech company in Palo Alto to apply the Aiken algorithm to online communication.
To develop the c content database, I plan on launching a nationwide call for content. Every person who has ever received a hateful bullying message can forward it to our repository.
In that way, victims of cyberbullying can become an empowering part of the solution to an ugly but eminently solvable big-data problem. We just need the collective will to address it. You are being bullied.
The beauty of the design is twofold: First, only artificial intelligence would be screening the transactions, which will be incredibly efficient for a big-data problem such as cyberbullying, and second, there would be no breach of privacy for the child.
I know there could be an outcry about surveillance, but we are talking about minors, and we are talking about an opt-in solution with parental consent. Ultimately the algorithm could reflect jurisdictional law in the area of cyber-harassment against a minor and be designed to quantify and provide evidence of a crime.
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