FB: Facebook changes policies for teens amid popularity concerns

Facebook changes policies for teens amid popularity concerns • 7:29 PM

• Facebook (FB) users aged 13 to 17 are now able (like their older peers) to create public posts the can be viewed by an user; until now, teens could only make content visible to friends and friends of friends.
• The social networking giant is now also giving teens the option to let others "follow" them instead of befriending them (so as to make it easier to limit how much content the former group sees).
• The moves come amid concerns younger U.S. Facebook users are spending less time on the service in favor of Twitter, whose relative anonymity, multiple account support, and public conversations have made it popular with many teens.
• Snapchat's rise (and recent addition of social networking features) has also been viewed as a potential threat. As with Twitter, the fear isn't that Facebook will be abandoned altogether, but that engagement levels among younger users will drop from today's sky-high levels as users turn to services deemed less "boring."
• Mark Zuckerberg has insisted there isn't any teen Facebook exodus afoot.

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