Facebook’s Messenger Kids app—the kind of app you put on your child’s device to ensure they can only talk to approved contacts—had a not-so-helpful bug that allowed strangers to interact with kids.

The debate over how much time children should spend on digital devices like smartphones is raging on. Following its introduction last month, child health experts and groups are urging Facebook to kill ...

Facebook has an age limit of 13, though it's easy to lie about your age. Facebook Messenger Kids has an age limit of just 6. This week the company launched more ways for parents to keep a close eye ...

Facebook is basically always in the news for some privacy concern or another. In one such case, they—rightfully so—caught a lot of flak last summer when its Messenger Kids app inadvertently allowed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is adding a “sleep” mode to its Messenger Kids service to let parents limit when their kids can use it. It’s the latest concession that tech companies are making as critics ...

Last month, Facebook rolled out a preview of a new app that makes it easier for kids to safely video chat and message with family and friends. The new standalone app lives on a kids’ tablet or ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Parents can easily see how much time their teen is spending on Messenger. Parents can easily see how much time ...