[drnonsense42]

I think your take is the crazy one. I’m not sure if you remember how this whole thing works with Zuckerberg, but it sounds like they’re in the “let’s gather a lot of 6 year old users” stage. The “let’s make billions of dollars off them now that they’re all on here” stage comes later. Most of the people on here (not you) aren’t falling for the same crap.

[f6v]

Haven’t corporations always targeted children? Toys, movies, food, etc.

[WickyNilliams]

Toy companies aren't systematically eroding privacy at every opportunity. A child is not able to understand the implications of using FB.

Hell, outside of technical circles, I doubt most adults are able to truly understand the scope of what FB does!

[drnonsense42]

Do you really think toys or food or comparable to Facebook? You go into a store, you see the product your child wants, and 99.9% of the time you know exactly what it does. You cannot walk away from a child eating a happy meal for 5 minutes and come back and see them watching a porn video hidden in the hamburger.

[raxxorrax]

Many skills they develop with digital products will be bound to a very small amount of companies. That certainly can be a problem.

This is of course to set up a pipeline for new Facebook users. Doesn't have to be bad, but it is what it is and there shouldn't be naive illusions about it.