{"id":159,"date":"2007-07-03T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2007\/07\/03\/childs-play\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T02:08:17","slug":"childs-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2007\/07\/03\/childs-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Child&#8217;s Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  I find it endlessly fascinating that a toddler nowadays knows more about computers than most people over 30 years of age.  But in some ways, it&#8217;s fascinating to watch what draws a toddlers attention on the internet.  <\/p>\n<p>  Of course, kids are enamored by all the cartoon characters they see on TV.  They want to then play games online with these characters in them.  So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nick.com\">Nick<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonnetwork.com\">Cartoon Network<\/a> are often top destinations.  <\/p>\n<p>  I wonder who makes the decisions for these websites.  They have so very many options that the smallest child is often at a loss for what they really want to do ~ <em>play games<\/em>.  I think it idiotic to try and signup a toddler for email updates or sell them some toy or memorabilia, all from the same webpage.  Toddlers and young kids don&#8217;t hardly know how to read, let alone comprehend the marketing that these companies are trying to shove down their throats.  <\/p>\n<p>  They are kids for pete&#8217;s sake.  They like the pictures they see.  They want to interact.  They don&#8217;t buy online, they don&#8217;t know how or even care for that matter.  They don&#8217;t care about all that other jazz you&#8217;re trying to push them the same way you would for adults.  That&#8217;s grownup material.  Get their parents involved a different way, don&#8217;t force them to navigate your site because you can&#8217;t effectively design the sites for your target audience.  Add to your image by letting kids interact with your characters in fun,educational games, but don&#8217;t market to them in the same screen.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t understand and you just piss off people by having them navigate around the garbage in order to find the stuff of some value.  <\/p>\n<p>  Be there for the kids, not the greed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it endlessly fascinating that a toddler nowadays knows more about computers than most people over 30 years of age. But in some ways, it&#8217;s fascinating to watch what draws a toddlers attention on the internet. Of course, kids are enamored by all the cartoon characters they see on TV. They want to then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}