Teens are getting bored of Facebook. There's Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Snapchat—it's really too much to manage all of those networks and not fail out of high school. But Facebook needs teens to stick around, and stickers just aren't cutting it. On Wednesday, the social behemoth gave them more options.
Now 13- to 17-year-olds can choose to post publicly. To protect teens' privacy, Facebook has long prevented them from sharing status updates with the world at large. Their first posts were limited to friends of friends, and that's about as large as their circle could get. If you're a teenager posting on Facebook for the first time, the privacy setting is set to friends, but you can easily change the audience for future posts.
Facebook is also letting teens turn on the follow feature, so strangers who follow them on Facebook can see all posts set to public.
This move makes sense for Facebook. It's competing with other networks that give teens the ability to live their lives out in the open. It doesn't want to be seen as the nanny network.
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