Messenger Kids 4+

This app is great for the fact that your child can connect with their friends in a more restricted platform. It is a pain in the bum though that the adult account associated with the child account must be friends on their Facebook account with any adults that your child wants to connect with. My kids wanted their dad on their accounts so they could chat with him while at home but because we are not Facebook friends they were unable to add him.

The layout is full of bright colours which is appealing to the younger kids but my daughter who previously had a Facebook and messenger account [before it got deleted assumedly for being under 13 (she’s almost 12)] isn’t a fan of the big boxy layout on messenger kids compared to just the list of names on normal messenger.

It’s also a shame that she can’t play the games with me which are available on normal messenger through messenger kids. The whole reason why she got a Facebook account in the first place was so she could play draw something with me via messenger.

It’s a good starting point but it would be great if they made a kid friendly version of the whole Facebook app (or at least let us as parents decide whether to allow our children to have a Facebook account) so they can join groups and discussions and play more games then the ones that are restricted to messenger kids accounts.

I love it but I really wanted to get into it but I hated trying to sign it and I couldn’t feel like days and days and I didn’t know how to like I really want take away that like Simon I wish we could just go and write our name and like message each other but arm you can like I don’t know like I really hate like science so please delete this one and I’m really like I’m struggling so badly I don’t even know like it says it’s having trouble making an account all the time I deleted it did it again everything is correct it just says it’s having trouble with making my account account so please I just want to get into messenger kids I really want to like so badly I’ve been wanting to try for years now like please forgive me please please please we love the app everyone loves the getting struggling with and making it’s like we need not to like signing any more because like no like I can’t even sign in for like a year years and I’m just struggling I love this app so please forgive me just please please please please forgive me please please please please please I’m begging you to just delete the sign and I am begging you so hardly oh my god I just open open doing it for like years so please please please forgive me please thank you

This app is great for primary age children and above to keep in touch with school friends, your friends in general and of course family members.
My daughter uses Messenger Kids regularly, it’s a great way for her to interact with her friends and family, with various options to engage with entertaining activities whilst logged into the app, let alone ability to write to one another using its message service whilst logged in.
The app also encourages children to spell out there words when actively utilising the message service, available on the app itself.
Overall, fantastic app not only for children, but also for parents with many notification options to choose from that enable restricted access along with weekly reports that monitor screen time and friends in which your child/children speak to most on a weekly basis, enabling safe practice when utilising electronic devices…!!
Hope this review helps those in whom are in two minds with regards to safe practice vs a most concerning world around us, when it comes to inappropriate content readily accessible, online!