The corporate parent of Facebook and Instagram plans to open a digital gateway for kids as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through the Meta Quest headset, despite rising concerns about children spending too much time on social media.
Meta Platforms, which oversees a social media empire created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, disclosed it will lower the minimum age for a Quest account. The Menlo Park, California, company framed the change coming later this year as a family-friendly way for more people to explore artificial realms that Zuckerberg touts as the “metaverse.”
Both Facebook and Instagram for years have been under fire for using tactics that get kids hooked on social media at a young age, undercutting their real-life relationships with friends and families while exposing them to the risk of online bullying and abuse by sexual predators. Other safeguards will include setting all preteen accounts to a private setting by default and a pledge not to show them any ads that generate most of Meta's revenue.and our commitment to building safe, positive experiences for young people at the forefront,” Meta wrote in the blog post.when assessing whether they should allow a 10- to -12-year-old to use a virtual reality headset.
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