Facebook will allow users to share their information publicly teens

Before users to modify the privacy of your updates will be trained to "understand the implications that that implies."

Although teenagers publish the content, its activity will not appear in the search engines.

 The teenager will receive a reminder of who can see what you post and may decide to share it with your friends or with a wider audience.

Facebook announced Wednesday that will allow users to share content publicly adolescents, so that anyone can access publications they rise to the social network. Until now, Facebook users under 18 could only share content with your friends and contacts of his friends, but his hearing may be universal if they so choose.

 Before that users choose to modify the privacy of your updates will be trained on privacy that will provide the social network itself to "understand the implications that this entails" and make a "informed decision." 

Before users to modify the privacy of your information to receive updates to "understand the implications" "Using conducting internet adolescents in general is very very different to what it was when he started Facebook", explained in an interview the director of public affairs for the social network in Spain, Natalia Basterrechea.

 Once accepted the change to share content publicly, the teen will receive a reminder of who can see them. In addition, you can decide on a new action if the shares exclusively with friends or with a wider audience.

 Facebook gives a turn to use policy relating to adolescence in an emergency context of different social networks that appeal to children: Snapchat, Twitter or Instagram are some of them. Even LinkedIn, for professionals, has lowered the entry age of its members from 18 to 14. 

The American Center Pew Research studies indicated a few weeks ago that the use of social networking by teenagers is diversifying and the relations of these with Facebook is "complicated". Basterrechea has indicated that Facebook has detected a "growing demand by users" to share their posts publicly. 

"This move is in line with other services that teens can use today and is evidenced by the fact that some of them are public voices on other platforms and are involved in civil society issues and activism" acknowledged the directive.

To support this thesis has cited a study by EU Kids Online which shows that 26% of children have public profiles on social networks and that this generation has a very deep knowledge of privacy tools they can use in them. 

Although teenagers publish the content, its activity will not appear in the search engines. Another change introduced today in the social network is that the privacy settings of the accounts will default under more restrictive: in principle its content will only be accessible to your contacts, not the friends of their friends as usual. 

"For our part we want to provide the education necessary to carry out those choices in an informed manner," he argued Basterrechea.