Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]
by dumbfounder on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:00PM
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I bought one and I can’t stand it. Too heavy and uncomfortable. The UI is annoying and confusing. I tried to find some games for my kids (ages 7-9) but they either couldn’t figure them out or they were boring. What’s up with that start area, why can’t I explore it? It’s collecting dust for me. I see the potential but it seems a ways off.
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Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]
by zmmmmm on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:17PM
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> I tried to find some games for my kids (ages 7-9)
they won't even recommend it as safe for kids that age yet, so it isn't surprising you couldn't find any games targeted to that age range.
You should be aware there are some potentially scary things going on in any of the social apps [0]
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/a-barra...
Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]
by randoglando on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:22AM
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While many apps (social ones) are not safe for kids yet (funny enough it's usually unsafe because of other kids - teenagers), there are still many apps that work really well for kids. The Guardian article is quite sensationalized (primarily about VRChat and maybe RecRoom, but the Oculus has more).
Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]
by dntrkv on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:40PM
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Nobody should be letting their kids play any multi-player games. Not only for their sake (people say some fucked up shit on there), but for the sake of all the other adults playing those games.
Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]
by zmmmmm on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:21PM
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Unfortunately, many people are letting their kids (young teens, pre-teens) do that. (Where "letting them" simply means, not actively stopping them, being unaware etc).
Which is half the problem. The other half of the problem is that Facebook is actively pushing developers to social-enable their games by integrating Facebook based social features into them (hence the mandatory Facebook account). So even games that have no reason to be using those features are seeing them added.