KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD) PAOLA ALLIEGRO

A NEW SOCIAL MEDIA JUST FOR

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

Facebook allow kids from 13 years and older, but some studies show that exists more than 7 million kids bellow that age on the popular social media.

There are several unethical issues on having kids in social media, but to try to say that kids are not allow for using it is a big mistake, because this is what now kids are living and looking for. We should work on having a more safe digital place for them instead of trying to ban them.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

This social media is designed for kids between 7 and 14 years old, that is when kids start to create digital networking and before kids are too grow up to have the desire to be part of a controlled social media.

In order to develop a social media with an effective control a monthly fee must be charged, and an adequate amount could be around $1.99.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

ISSUES ON ACTUAL SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TEENAGERS

As was explained before, social media is designed for kids from 13 years and older, but we can’t prohibit the unprohibited. Many concerns would lead parents to pay a monthly fee to have a social media for their children more positive, constructive, safe and ethical.

Some of the main problems are:

- Privacy

- Data sells

- Cyber Bullying

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

ISSUES ON ACTUAL SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TEENAGERS

- Advertisers/Marketing inappropriate for kids

- Pornography

- Cyber sexual predators or swindlers

- Cyber egocentrism (selfies, amount of followers, likes, etc)

- Negative and fake empowerment through social media

- Computer viruses

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

MONITORING

One of the most important tools of this social media it is to give a monitoring option for parents in their phones, that will allow them to have some control of their kid’s social media. Some of the benefits that parent are going to have are:

- Checking if your kid is being bulled or if is doing bullying against others kids.

- Checking if the name or a picture of your kid is being repeated more than 20 times in a short period of time, in order to promptly detect if your kid is involve in a negative situation, like gossips, bullying or others.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

MONITORING

- Checking the “Friends” of your kid on the social media.

- Effectively report and send a person or photo to investigation if something is no correct.

- Alerts when someone did a screen shot of the wall or pictures of your kid.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

FEATURESOthers features that this social media is going to have are:

▸ No data sells: to protect private information of kids.

▸ Right to be forgotten. Like politics in UK, kids must have the right to be forgotten.

▸ No advertisers.

▸ No marketing.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

FEATURES

▸ No count of likes and no count of followers. Just comments allow in order to change the concept of “fake popularity” and the negative conception of empowerment thought likes and followers.

▸ Promotion of Hashtags about Sport, Art, Music and Community activities. Instead “Throw Back Thursdays” (#TBT) in Instagram or “Follow Friday” (#FF) in Twitter, promote hashtags like #SportyMonday, #ArThursdays, #MusicSaturdays or #HelperSunday, in order to encourage kids to actually do and post positive photos and activities that can inspire others.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

FEATURES

▸ Recognitions from schools to standing students. In order to promote positive behaviors and kids who have been working hard in different areas.

▸ Section for instructive videos where kids can upload about how to cook something, how to resolve a math exercise, how to build an experiment , how to do a skateboard stunt or any positive theme.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS (7 TO 14 YEARS OLD)

FEATURES▸ Alerts when someone make a screen shot of your wall,

videos or pictures. As Snapchat did in order to control even more the digital property of every user.

▸ Fund raising for school, sport teams, dance groups or any positive cause. With a section (like Go fund me) to encourage kids to fund raise for positives activities or to help others in difficult situations.

▸ News from schools. Instead of having news from the national or regional Newspapers, have a connection with the schools of the users and communicate the most important news.