{"id":2200,"date":"2016-12-13T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-launches-parents-portal-to-help-folks-navigate-their-kids-social-experience.html"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T19:10:53","slug":"facebook-launches-parents-portal-to-help-folks-navigate-their-kids-social-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-launches-parents-portal-to-help-folks-navigate-their-kids-social-experience.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launches parents portal to help folks navigate their kids\u2019 social experience"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Facebook<\/a>, the social networking app used by\u00a01.8 billion people\u00a0globally, does not provide figures for how much of that\u00a0audience is comprised of minors \u2014 that is, people under the age of 18 (and theoretically<\/a> over the age of 13). But chances are that\u00a0these days it\u2019s a significant number, when you consider some news out from the company today: Facebook is launching a new parent portal, aimed at helping adults navigate their minor charges\u00a0through Facebook\u2019s social media landscape.<\/p>\n

To be clear, this is not a set of guidelines that will teach parents younger people\u2019s lingo or give them insight into what their kids want out of the world or out of Facebook today; or give them a way of monitoring or deleting their kids\u2019\u00a0accounts. (As Facebook\u00a0has said before<\/a>, privacy laws forbid this.)<\/p>\n

Instead, this is a set of safety guidelines, as well as\u00a0resources to help\u00a0first-time Facebook users, specifically\u00a0younger people who want to sign up and get\u00a0to grips with Facebook.<\/p>\n

Living in the Safety section of the site (which itself was updated in October<\/a>), the parents portal sits right under the guidelines for coping\u00a0with online bullying.<\/p>\n

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It includes basics<\/a> like how to register on Facebook for the first time, import contacts, and post on your timeline. It also provides some basic safety tips such as how to create a secure password, how to block content and how to report content. It provides links to report accounts that are held by people under the age of 13.<\/p>\n

And there is also a section of tips<\/a> for parents to help them figure out Facebook fits into their wider world of parenting do\u2019s and don\u2019ts and general online safety. Included are also links to internet advocacy groups<\/a> that focus on shaping and carrying out policies related to children online.<\/p>\n

The parenting portal is being rolled out in 50 languages, and it looks like Facebook is trying to bring in support groups from all over the world as part of this effort.<\/p>\n

The move to open a parent portal comes at an interesting time for the company.<\/p>\n

While Facebook itself doesn\u2019t talk about how many younger people use it, surveys have found that these days Facebook\u00a0is not\u00a0the most popular app<\/a>\u00a0among teens.<\/p>\n

Yet it\u2019s clearly a demographic that Facebook (like all ad-based online media properties) would like to tap for more users and usage.<\/p>\n

Other efforts from Facebook to court younger users, like its\u00a0Lifestage app, have flopped. Launched earlier this year<\/a>, the iOS version app currently ranks at 945 in the U.S. according to App Annie, and the Android version<\/a> doesn\u2019t make the rankings at all.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s\u00a0main purpose may be\u00a0about setting out\u00a0guidelines for minors all in one place (up to now, Facebook has offered some advice throughout different areas of its support and help pages, with no single, central point of reference).<\/p>\n

But the\u00a0parents portal is\u00a0indirectly also another way to bring\u00a0in more young users: get parents familiar with how to get their over-13 children\u00a0on the social network, show them that it\u2019s not scary, and Facebook may find it opens the door to more younger people coming to its platform.<\/p>\n

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