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TechCrunch describes a new move by Disney into the mobile messaging market:
Disney today is wading into the mobile messaging market with a new chat application called Disney Mix, aimed at kids, tweens and families. While the app will compete to some extent with popular messaging clients like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, and others, the goal with Disney Mix is to provide a safer alternative that's built with the needs of kids in mind. That means the app isn't just about chatting -- it's also about playing games, making memes, sharing stickers and more, says Disney.
The company notes that it already has over a decade of experience when it comes to building online communities for children, including things like Club Penguin, MarvelKids, and other virtual worlds.
[...] In Disney Mix, friends can chat with each other, which includes sending stickers of favorite Disney characters, like Flash from Zootopia, Hank from Finding Dory, and Jenny from Adventures in Babysitting, for example. Additional content in the app comes from Frozen, Monsters University, Toy Story, K.C. Undercover, Descendants, and other Disney franchises.
Beyond chatting with friends and family, kids can also add Disney accounts to their Friends List, like Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Movies. These accounts will then message them with new photos and videos periodically, along with other news.
Perhaps the biggest differentiator between Disney Mix and a straightforward messaging client is that it has a variety of interactive games built-in, like Spikes, Elsa's Winter Walz, and Cards of D
Disney Mix is available for free for iOS and Android.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday August 05 2016, @09:53PM
How do you know there is a small minority?
Are there statistics on this? Who compiles them?
Every family I know with young kids having any kind of app platform or computer monitors them and badgers them about over-sharing.
And most of the kids I know are pretty savvy about the issue, with at least a few of them opting out of facebook.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.