Maily: Opening the door to the outside world for children

Nowadays, emails seem to be outdated in the face of endless social software and online communication, and for most people, there is less chance of using mail outside of work. and too formal. Facebook tried to wipe out the mail, and some even thought it was not necessary to use it even at the enterprise level.

But why would anyone want to develop mail clients for children?

Maily is a mail client on the IPad, but unlike other clients, it is designed for children aged 4-9. Maily has the same function as an adult client: Accept mail, Address Book, and push. However, it has a very visual design, in addition to bright colors, maily use is very realistic and interesting. Children can write text instead of typing, add stamps and stickers to their emails, or paint with pencils. It even includes camera functions, and children can add photos directly to their emails.

The Mashable website interviewed Maily's developers and talked about the use of e-mail by children.

The developer expressed to Mashable the motivation to develop a child mail client. They found that children use tablets to play games and watch videos, but rarely use the device to communicate with others. Mail clients for large companies are designed for adults and have limited age. Most importantly, this kind of mail looks formal and not interesting enough.

"Just as we were young, we gave our pictures to our grandmother, hanging on the fridge," Halbertha said, "But now, the kids just mail it to grandma."

Even the simple way of communication, it is inevitable that some security concerns. As a result, maily allows parents to have their own maily accounts to monitor their children's behavior. Children can only send mail to their parents ' agreed contact. Parents can see the messages they send and receive, and can read the messages sent to them to determine whether they are acceptable.

One blogger, Shari Brooks, thinks Maily's application is good for children's lives.

This will allow them to read, write, spell, and focus on hand-eye coordination. In addition, it makes them focus on their ideas and how to express them in pictures or words, "she said," which requires them to be more responsible for their feelings and ideas. "

Shari Brook said, "It's like a modern pen pal."

Maily seems to be an interesting application, which not only makes us think that children's growth can not be separated from the vast communication, in the surrounding world, they also need a door to the outside world, the progress of the network provides this possibility. Rather than the network as a scourge, whether it can properly guide, play its positive effect? Aside from the mail client, is the child's social network a crazy idea?

At present, this application is free and there is no advertising. But developers say they might add ads to their parents ' version of maily.