# Daring Fireball: Facebook 'Messenger Kids'

<https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/04/facebook-messenger-kids>

- Host: [daringfireball.net](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/daringfireball.net/)
- Saved: December 5, 2017 (2017-12-06T03:02:10Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a782518359a1/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a782518359a1.json

## What Jamie wrote

Gruber's take on this is so spot on:

> This is like Philip Morris introducing officially licensed candy cigarettes. You’re nuts if you sign your kids up for this.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT31: Weekly Thing for December 9, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/31/), Links 📌

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/04/facebook-messenger-kids