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Facebook introduced Messenger Kids 2 years ago, aiming to provide a safe platform for children to stay in touch with friends. Initially limited to the United States, the app later expanded to Canada, Peru, and Mexico. However, Messenger Kids is now reaching a broader market by adding support for over 70 new countries.
Messenger Kids expands its reach to over 70 new countries and adds many exciting features.
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This list is quite extensive, covering countries from various parts of the world. However, it seems that most European countries are not included in this expansion wave. There's also no indication that the service will reach Europe anytime soon. The focus appears to be on South America and certain Asian countries.
Additionally, Facebook is introducing several new features for Messenger Kids. First up is Supervised Friending. Initially, Messenger Kids only allowed parents to invite and approve contacts for their children. With the new Supervised Friending feature, parents can choose to allow their children to accept, reject, add, or delete contacts while still retaining the ability to approve new contacts from the Parent Dashboard.
As an additional security measure, parents will receive notifications whenever their children perform any friend-requesting actions through the app and can intervene immediately.
Another feature is the ability to select adult users to create groups for children to connect with. The idea is that an adult, such as a teacher or coach, can help connect a group of children they are teaching or training. With this in mind, parents can allow these adults to create group chats involving their children, so these adults can connect groups of children participating in certain activities with each other, as long as they have parental permission. Both of these features are initially available in the U.S. and will gradually be rolled out to other markets.
Finally, parents can now choose to display their child's name and profile picture to the friends of their child's contacts, their friends' children on Facebook, and the children of those invited by parents to use Messenger Kids. The simple goal is to expand a child's contact list through extended connections with people parents trust. This feature is currently available in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, with more countries soon to be added to the list.
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