I don't get the hyperventilating about this. If you don't want your kids to use children's Instagram, then prohibit them from doing so. There's a lot of stuff on the internet children shouldn't see or be involved with. If you think Instagram Kids is a member of that set then treat it that way.
Can we just take a moment to reflect on what Zuckerberg did with regular Instagram? The typical pattern of abuse: say you won't do x, then do x (namely that he would keep it independent and not merge anything with facebook), then bully the original founders out of their company
If this <i>corporate</i> <i>fetish</i> isn't on the same borderline as <i>pedophilia</i>. I don't know what is. I absolutely despise this form of capitalism. Businesses nowadays have no moral responsibility. No ethical responsibility.<p>What makes this worse, is now even the adults (ahem parents) will have an extra excuse of a babysitter. Out of the lack of effort or just plain ignorance. I am sad for this new generation of kids being targeted from their formative years. Being hooked on social media psychologically. Not being able to form an opinion that is of themselves. Being cogs in the SM machine.<p>It's almost funny I just saw some startup the other day, forgot the name, that wants to sort of be a LinkedIn network for young kids. I almost lost it.
I don’t necessarily believe Instagram or any social media for children is a good idea, but these kinds of headlines “the modern Bond villain” are a bit hard to take seriously.