The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has urged Facebook to stay away from his kids after it released a new app for children as young as six.
The father of three young children, Jeremy Hunt said that Facebook, led by Mark Zuckerberg, is going back on its promise of preventing the under-age use of its social media site by introducing this new app for pre-teens.
Hunt tweeted, “Not sure this is the right direction at all. Facebook told me they would come back with ideas to PREVENT underage use of their product, but instead they are actively targeting younger children. Stay away from my kids please, Facebook, and act responsibly!”
The main social networking site of Facebook is meant to have an age restriction of 13, however, some children younger than that create accounts by giving false dates of birth.
It is said that this new Messenger Kids app, which has been introduced in the United States of America, has been designed to give children between the age of six and 12 a safe way of using social media. Parents can also download the app, create a profile for their kids and choose which friends their kids can communicate with.
