Analisis Fenomena Hyperhonest Penggunaan Fitur Instagram Close Friends Dalam Batasan Privasi

Abstract

With the development of new social media features that now make social media not only limited to exchanging information, but also used as a space for self-disclosure, one of which is self-disclosure on the Instagram "Close Friends" feature. With this feature, users can use it as a place to vent, express themselves more or be more honest by sharing private matters that are only known by the list of followers of their close friends. In terms of this phenomenon, it is called the hyperhonest phenomenon, namely venting more honestly. The purpose of the importance of this research is to find out and understand the hyperhonest phenomenon experienced by generation Z women in the Instagram close friends feature and the cyber culture of self-disclosure that is formed in the Instagram close friends feature, as well as to contribute to readers so that they consider disclosing personal information on the media. social. This study uses the study of Communication Privacy Management theory by Sandra Petronio (2002) which focuses on privacy management systems to regulate the level of privacy boundaries. The method used is Virtual Ethnography with in-depth interviews with 6 female respondents in the Z generation category and participant observation by researchers. The data validation technique uses data triangulation. Most of them set boundaries in sharing personal problems in the close friends feature that there is trust given to people they trust for shared information ownership, then cyber culture is formed in the Instagram close friends feature where the close friends space becomes a place of refuge to reveal personal information, share hyperhonest story.