Soon after everyone barricaded themselves at home in March, Cheryl Franklin’s Facebook started to ping. Again, again and again. She had begun allowing her son Jacob, 7, to use Messenger Kids, a ...

Facebook is coming for your kids.The social media giant is launching a messaging app for children to chat with their parents and with friends approved by their parents. The free app is aimed at kids ...

GamesBeat Next's on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed. Watch Now In December 2017, Facebook launched Messenger Kids, a child-friendly alternative ...

Messenger Kids gets the slightly better privacy feature as a trade-off for needing approval before starting a conversation. Though paranoid adults can download the app and attach it to their actual ...

Some parents say the app helps their kids connect with family and friends. But inappropriate content has slipped through the cracks. Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social ...

Most of us can remember growing up and calling friends on the family phone to talk about homework or summer plans. Today, many households don’t even have a landline. Kids may not have their own phones ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) -- With over 2 billion users, Facebook is already the world's largest social network, but now the company is rolling out a new app to get users into its ecosystem at an earlier ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- More than 100 public health advocates are calling on Facebook to pull the plug on its new Messenger Kids app. Facebook says it created the app to give children a safe way to video ...

Facebook is launching a new chat app for kids, the company announced Monday. The app, called Messenger Kids, allows children to send messages and photos and video chat with specific contacts that have ...

A new report from The Verge details how Facebook’s Messenger Kids application has been failing at its single purpose. The report explains that by using group chats, children were able to enter ...

For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats that plague youth-focused competitors like Snapchat.