11-06-2013, 11:21 PM
Facebook is not geared towards children. It is a social media site for young adults/adults (yes teenagers are adults). It also has many practical business uses as well, and in some aspects can be utilized by teachers/professors to better contact their students or form a discussion board for them. It's not really something with family in mind, it's a social interaction tool. While Nintendo is very family oriented and commonplace in the home atmosphere. So common that parents and grandparents alike for decades now have called all video games "nintendo" as in "get off your nintendo bobby, dinner is ready".
Nintendo is first and foremost a family gaming company, that is their image like it or not. Whether or not you agree or disagree with the swapnote removal, it is very damaging to their image and just as damaging to one's morals. If you knew you could reduce the risk of a child being taken by a predator, just by an 1% wouldn't you do it? Don't even start with the "oh parents should watch" bullshit either. The fact is in this day and age kids are much more tech savvy and able to easily navigate through parental blocks and just as easily duck out of punishments by covering their trails. Not to mention that most parents have to work more than one job to support their families and can not always be present and have to trust that their children can think logically for themselves. While most kids can think logically and might know to avoid such things, you have to remember that you're dealing with sexual predators here. Who are very dangerous and manipulative people who know how to work a child's mind and gain their trust. It's inhuman and utterly horrible that some people are this way but it is sadly a fact of life, and we as a society must take the appropriate actions to prevent children from falling into the hands of these people. Swapnote was a fun little app, it is kind bleh that it's gone. But that's just it, it was fun, it had no real utilization or purposes outside of the idle occupation of your time. Putting your "fun" above a child's safety is just downright disgusting.
Nintendo is first and foremost a family gaming company, that is their image like it or not. Whether or not you agree or disagree with the swapnote removal, it is very damaging to their image and just as damaging to one's morals. If you knew you could reduce the risk of a child being taken by a predator, just by an 1% wouldn't you do it? Don't even start with the "oh parents should watch" bullshit either. The fact is in this day and age kids are much more tech savvy and able to easily navigate through parental blocks and just as easily duck out of punishments by covering their trails. Not to mention that most parents have to work more than one job to support their families and can not always be present and have to trust that their children can think logically for themselves. While most kids can think logically and might know to avoid such things, you have to remember that you're dealing with sexual predators here. Who are very dangerous and manipulative people who know how to work a child's mind and gain their trust. It's inhuman and utterly horrible that some people are this way but it is sadly a fact of life, and we as a society must take the appropriate actions to prevent children from falling into the hands of these people. Swapnote was a fun little app, it is kind bleh that it's gone. But that's just it, it was fun, it had no real utilization or purposes outside of the idle occupation of your time. Putting your "fun" above a child's safety is just downright disgusting.