I found this article on BBC.
Facebook will allow users under 18 to post publicly on the site, in response to user’s requests. Facebook’s directors decided it for teenagers to improve the experience on Facebook. However, there are concerns about abuse, so the default of sharing is set as “friends” to remind anyone can see their post.
Until reading this article, I did not know that users under 18 were allowed to share posts only with “friends of friends” on Facebook. Besides it, I did not know children under 13 cannot use Facebook, so I was surprised how much care Facebook took with privacy of young people. Losing the limit of sharing posts is a chance for teenager to communicate with indefinite people and to know various kinds of news in the world. But there are some crimes which are committed through SNS such as Facebook, so I think users should remember their posts can be seen by anyone, and consider whether they will share their post.
Questions:
・What do you think about the change(Users under 18 can post publicly on Facebook)?
・Have you ever shared something on internet sites? What contents did you share?
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