Thursday, October 17, 2013

Facebook changes privacy rules for teens - TVI24

The social network Facebook is trying an approach to other networks by allowing gender, from now, teenagers from 13 to 17 years to share information with the public unknown, moved to CNN on Thursday.

Share photos, status updates or comments was, until now, prohibited for this age group, and these actions only viewed by “friends” of young people.

This update allows strangers to follow the updates adolescents even when not part of a network of “friends”. This extends to ordinary users, but also to companies and advertising agencies.

Businesses and advertising are, in fact, the target company that Zuckerberg wants to attract with this new amendment, which comes from other networks social as Twitter or Tumblr. Here is a young public higher since there are these kinds of prohibitions.

To counteract the changes, the social network will introduce two new practices. One will be issuing a warning every time some minor try changing your settings to ‘public’, a pop-up that explains what it means to have a profile of this kind, and another, restricting automatic profiles to new users are minors (which can be changed later).

The changes will not, however, affect ‘posts’ prior to the updates.

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