Had a good conversation with a dear friend yesterday. I explained I wouldn’t let my daughter install Facebook Messenger for Kids on her device to communicate with her daughter. The app is insidious. Addicting children to a toxic platform from a morally bankrupt biz.

@niklasjordan great question! I advocated for Apple iMessage, as it is end-to-end encrypted, and comes from a company with strong, consumer-oriented privacy views. I showed her how to create a Family Sharing setup in iCloud and an Apple ID for her child.

@cleverdevil I am extremely careful what apps my daughter is exposed to. No FB ofcourse. YouTube is equally bad. I hear Hangouts being a good option.

@amit YouTube is tricky. We removed it from all devices relatively recently and blocked it too. There is some good content there, but so much questionable content too, and their algorithms are dangerous.

@cleverdevil I’m always glad to hear parents who don't just lament the dangers of the phones they give their kids, but actually do something about it. Those deepest into tech sometimes are uniquely aware of its dangers.