Will Facebook's Changes Drive Away the Teen Crowd?

Monica Vila is co-founder of TheOnlineMom.com, an organization that provides technology education to families and helps moms connect with brands they can trust.

Is it possible that Facebook is getting ready to abandon the teen market to concentrate on the 18-49 demographic that is so important to advertisers? That could be one conclusion from last week’s announcement that Facebook is making yet another change to the layout of the site, this time impacting the home page, or News Feed, as it is often called

This follows suggestions that Facebook is already losing its allure for many teens, as they shift to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and other social platforms