Social Networks Aimed at Children: Disney leads Charge into the Facebook for Under 13

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As if Tweens lying about their age to get on Facebook, on IM channels; doing a ridiculous amount of detached interaction through MMOGs and txting wasn't enough to kidnap our young ones' time - we have government lauding fat grants to funding start-ups that are keen to snatch up the chat flow and commoditize childrens' thoughts, photos and expressions. The next generation of humanity is being tempered by these social networks to be conditioned to cyber policing, strict content filtering, anti-bullying directives. Children have their social interaction in-a-box complete with convenient tools and ratting out others for non compliance to the rules of 'play'.

Quote:Social Network For Kids Everloop Lands $3.1 Million In New Funding
June 12th, 2011
by Leena Rao

Everloop, a social network for children under 13 years of age, has raised $3.1 million in funding from vFormation, Band of Angels, Envoi Ventures, Richard Chino, Wayne Goodrich, Deena Burnett-Bailey and additional investors.

Everloop wants to be the Facebook for kids under the age of 13. The site offers a private social network where parents can actually monitor the day to day activities of their children on the network. Everloop combines music, social games, videos, photos, animation, user-generated content and other experiences.

The startup prides itself on a high-level of security within the network, so parents can constantly monitor their child’s interactions on the site for foul language, bullying, inappropriate pictures and more.

The company is also adding Disney exec Sandy Barger as Chief Marketing Officer, AOL’s Tobin Trevarthen as EVP of Business Development and Alan Goodman as Creative Advisor.

Everloop faces competition from Togetherville, which was recently acquired by Disney.

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http://twitter.com/FastTadpole/status/80144987546853376
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/12/social-...w-funding/

   

Yup Disney has it's fingers all over this project to extend the government/corporate social engineering, marketing agenda's online reach to children further than their ToonTown and Club Penguin empires already do. Offering a wad of candy in return for total surveillance, censorship and the candy is oh so sweet in offering friendship, fun and games galore pushed by all of their favourite and most trusted characters and coolest branded shills no doubt!

If controlling the evolution and direction of human beings were a game of Chess - Children would be The King.

An aptly descript vision of The Future if we don't stop this meat-grinder for mind sausages put forth by a former Disney Imagineer:

Jesse Schell - DICE 2010: Design Outside the Box - Disturbing Presentation on Gaming Psychology, Technology, Social Engineering and Marketing
Torrent: http://concen.org/tracker/torrents-details.php?id=18423 (freeleech)
Discuss: http://concen.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=34080
Stream: http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-D...sentation/

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