Facebook lifts restriction on teen users sharing with public


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 17 Oct 2013

SAN FRANCISCO:  Facebook Inc removed a restriction for users under 18 that previously limited who could see their online postings from photos to musings on the world-wide social network.

The No.1 online social network said that teenagers would now be able to manually alter the setting and share information with the public. Until now, a teenager's postings on Facebook were only viewable to their friends, and to the friends of their friends.

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