Facebook announced that it is building a social network for children

According to Bloomberg, Facebook is building a special version of Instagram for children under 13. This is reportedly an attempt to bring their Instagram photo-sharing tool closer to the next generation of internet users.

The new app was announced yesterday but hasn’t been officially launched yet. Instagram currently requires users to be at least 13 years old.

Instagram is an application that Facebook acquired for $ 1 billion 10 years ago. Now, it has become one of the company’s most prominent products as Facebook is slowly losing its appeal to young users.

“More and more children are asking their parents if they can join social networking apps that help them stay in touch with their friends,” said Joe Osborne, a Facebook spokesperson. “Right now, there aren’t many options available for parents, so we’re working on building more products like Messenger Kids. We’re also learning about delivering experiences (of course below). parental controls) on Instagram to help kids stay in touch with their friends, discover new habits, hobbies and more.

Messenger Kids is a kid’s version of Facebook’s messaging app. The app includes many built-in parental control tools, but there’s one shortcoming: It allows kids to chat with people their parents don’t approve of. That causes concerns from authorities about child protection.

Instagram is a free photo and video sharing app on Apple iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Users can post photos or videos to the service and share them with their followers or with a select group of friends. They can view, comment on, and like posts that their friends share on Instagram.

In 2010, Instagram quickly became one of the most developed social networks today.

In 2012, Instagram was acquired by Facebook. This merger helps Instagram achieve user growth faster than Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

After a year of merging with Facebook, Instagram has reached 150 million users per month.

Currently, Instagram becomes the third most popular social media network with around 500 million active users per day, behind only Facebook (more than 2 billion monthly active users) and YouTube (1.9 billion active users). month).