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Technology: A fun and protected messaging app for kids
- Updated: August 10, 2016
The Walt Disney Company recently ventured into amicable messaging with a new app, Disney Mix, with a guarantee to guarantee a reserve of children’s communications on a app. Catering to kids, pre-teens and their families, a app also combines messaging with a array of fun memes, gags and games to plea your friends. It is being touted as a subsequent vast thing in amicable messaging. But is it value a hype? Lets find out:
The fun stuff
There are no normal LOLs or claps or fingers to poke fun during a buddy. Instead, we get memes with phrases like Lame, Did You Smell That and On Fire. Adults competence not associate many with them, though they make for fun retorts. But that’s not where a fun ends. You can also send charcterised gags like thumbs adult or down, a carnivore plant (that would assimilate them temporarily) or a ping-pong round gun (to fire them in a head).
The app’s interface is enjoyable, and also allows users to customise their avatars, desirous from certain Disney and Pixar characters like Flash from Zootopia, Hank from Finding Dory, Jenny from Adventures In Babysitting, Danny from Future-Worm and more. The app will shortly supplement a camera choice permitting users to share photos and videos with friends. You can also get news delivered to your discuss list from 5 central accounts — Disney Channel, Disney Movies, Disney Music, Disney XD and Radio Disney on a app. Needless to say, it’s one of a many engaging messaging apps out there.
The critical part
The reserve of children in a online universe is a vital concern, and with children combining a vast fan bottom of Disney, we can know because there’s so many importance on a reserve facilities employed in a app.
Firstly, Disney has defended a right to assuage all conversations on a app. This means that it will filter all conversations on a app. Secondly, Disney has a few rules, violation that will outcome in a proxy or permanent anathema from a app. These embody requesting or pity information with people we don’t know, and including your genuine name, phone number, home address, email address, amicable networking information, propagandize name, username, personal blog, photographs and videos.
It also disallows bullying or badgering behaviour, as good as swearing, racism, or illegal, tainted or striking calm of any kind. We punched in a few swear words, that were transposed with hyphens, and shortly a summary seemed (see pic, below) warning us of a ban. The app comes with certain red-flagged words, regulating that brings their courtesy to your profile. Disney has not common a list, though certain users on Google Play Store have complained of being criminialized for regulating difference like gay.
Also, to safeguard that we do not supplement posers or feign profiles, a app come with QR scanning to assistance we bond now and safely with your friends on a platform.
The beam verdict
Disney Mix is, but a doubt, one of a many enjoying messaging apps out there, and we will give it 10 out of 10 for a charcterised gags that supplement fun to a conversation. As distant reserve goes, it seems on a ball, suspicion many of it depends on a users. However, a concentration on children is a approach bit too much, and we are certain there are lot of adults who would adore to use a app and correlate with friends, but being limited by a homophobic filtration system.
Available on: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Other kids messaging apps
Marimba
Designed for children between 7-12 years, a app offers discuss for children, print pity and voice messages. And to keep feign profiles out of a platform, Marimba verifies a temperament of all new accounts regulating information from a parent’s supervision released ID. Parents can examination invitations, discuss activity, story as good as extent use hours to a app.
Available on iOS only
PlayKids Talk
Designed by PlayKids Inc, a app offers sum control to relatives to guard their children’s activities, including permission rights for camera and microphone. Besides, all a trade and messages in a app are encrypted.
Available on Android
PlayMessenger
Designed for kids gripping a primogenitor in mind, in a PlayMessenger app, child accounts are related to a primogenitor account. Parents can guard their child’s activity, discuss history, existent buddies and new requests from their possess profile.
Available on Android