Ypulse Essentials: 3D Kid's TV, 'Hunger Games' Trailer After VMAs, Facebook Privacy Changes

With parents allowing looser rules over children’s media consumption in summer months (it’s no wonder kids dread fall and back-to-school time. During the summer, 49% of children watch more TV, 46% play more video games, 45% surf the Web more, and 44% watch more movies. Kids might want to watch a lot more TV come October, however, when 3Net, a partnership of Sony, Discover, and Imax, launches the first ever 3D block of kid’s programming. Called Three Dee Net, it will include “Bolts & Blips” and “Dream Defenders,” airing on Saturdays. In other TV news, as promised, “The 90s Are All That” is updating its lineup, replacing reruns of “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Doug” with “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Hey Arnold!” per requests from the programming block’s Facebook page. Ask and ye shall receive) (Harris Interactive) (Kidscreen) (EW)

- Need another reason to watch the MTV VMAs (this Sunday? How about a sneak peek of the trailer for “The Hunger Games”? We’ll be glued to the TV…as if the promise of Lady Gaga opening the show, Beyonce performing, and Tony Bennett honoring Amy Winehouse wasn’t enough to captivate us) (Cynopsis) (Billboard)

- Facebook may have finally answered everyone’s privacy prayers (now that it is allowing users to set privacy settings at the micro-level. That means individual posts, photos, and tags can be set to private or public. Facebook’s sweeping changes extend to its Places feature, but don’t let the headlines fool you. Places isn’t going away…users can still share their location, but instead of going to the Places feature, they’ll be able to share via their profile where they are, where they’ve been, and where they’re going) (All Facebook) (Tech Crunch)

- In other social media news, Funny or Die is giving (top Klout members early access to its hilarioius web shorts. Klout measures social media users’ influence over others in a variety of categories. Ticketmaster has also launched a new integration with Facebook that lets concert goers see where their friends will be sitting by letting them tag their seats at the event) (Mashable) (ReadWriteWeb)

- Millennials are notorious for wanting to have things (their way. Well, Coca-Cola is giving the entitled generation just that with its freestyle soda machines that allow people to customize their own blend of soft drink flavors. Want to test it out before you go into the restaurant? There’s an app for that!) (MediaPost)

- The Class of 2015 is off to college (and for the first time will be the head of a household, making lots of purchase decisions. Here’s some advice on how to hook this latest crop of Millennials from the very beginning) (Fast Company)