Facebook Privacy Research Articles

Analisis Psikometrik Skala Pengukuran Pengurusan Privasi Komunikasi Facebook (Psychometric Analysis of Facebook Communication Privacy Measurement Scale)

Facebook is the most popular virtual communications platform among social media users around the world. This study is to identify the psychometric analysis of Facebook Privacy Communications Management Measurement Scale of the translated version of Bahasa Melayu. The first study involved 145 Facebook account owners among civil servants in Kedah determined by simple random sampling method. The questionnaire contains demographic information and 18 items of Facebook Communications Privacy Measurement Scale adopted from the Blog's Privacy Management Scale. The original items are rated using the Exploration Factor Analysis (EFA). Four hypothesis models were tested to assess the structure of the best scale based on Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). EFA findings show three components of the scale, namely the Boundary of Ownership, Boundary of Relationship and Boundary of Permeability was formed on 12 items that conform to the original concepts of Communication Privacy Management Theory. The CFA analysis shows a multidimensional model formed to achieve a convergent validity and goodness-of-fit. The second study involved 138 public university students to determine the strength of the study scale. An online questionnaire was disseminated containing demographic information, Facebook Communications Privacy Measurement Scale and Selfconsciousness Scale. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in the second study shows that the three factor multidimensional model of Facebook's Facebook Privacy Management Measurement Scale attains a reliability, convergence validity, discriminant validity, nomological validity, and predicitive validity. In conclusion, Facebook's Communications Privacy Measurement Scheme translated into Bahasa Melayu is suitable for use in the context of study in Malaysia.

Facebook privacy management strategies: A cluster analysis of user privacy behaviors

Online privacy management research related to e-commerce mainly focuses on whether or not to disclose information. Online social networking on the other hand, offers a broader set of privacy management behaviors such as using vendor-provided privacy settings, limiting self-disclosures, and managing network size. While much prior research has examined these privacy behaviors individually, we investigate how Facebook users combine these behaviors to form privacy management strategies. Using communications privacy management and impression management theories we first develop four propositions about possible user strategies that combine differing levels of disclosure, network size, and privacy setting use. One strategy is the most public, whereas two others deviate from this public strategy by either limiting disclosures, or using privacy settings to restrict access. The final strategy is the most private. We then survey two samples of Facebook users (college students and the general population) about their privacy management behaviors, privacy perceptions, technology usage perceptions, and demographics. Using cluster analysis we find some support for all four propositions, and for an additional strategy that beginning users may employ. The findings also reveal intriguing differences among the privacy management strategies in terms of perceptions and demographics like privacy concern, usefulness, enjoyment, and age, gender, and experience. Implications for future research are discussed.

Analyzing research trends in personal information privacy using topic modeling

This study examines trends in academic research on personal information privacy. Using Scopus DB, we extracted 2356 documents covering journal articles, reviews, book chapters, conference papers, and working papers published between 1972 and August 2015. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is applied to the abstracts of those extracted documents to identify topics. Topics discovered from all documents focus mainly on technology, and the findings indicate that algorithms, Facebook privacy, and online social networks have become prominent topics. In contrast, it was observed that journal articles put more emphasis on both the e-business and healthcare. These results identify a research gap in the area of personal information privacy and offer a direction for future research.

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The Impact of Online Training on Facebook Privacy

ABSTRACTFacebook is a major part of the lives of many consumers who share a considerable amount of information with friends, acquaintances, and commercial interests via the platform, leading to greater exposure to privacy risks. Training has been shown to be effective in reducing computer risk in a variety of contexts. This study investigates the effectiveness of training on consumer attitudes and behavioral intentions toward Facebook privacy risk. The study highlights the importance of training consumers on how and why they need to protect their privacy. Findings suggest that training can reduce consumer risk, but effectiveness can vary across types of training. For example, Facebook’s Privacy Tour was less effective than third-party training videos in improving consumer vigilance. Implications of the findings for consumers and privacy advocates are discussed.

An Exploratory Study of Attitudes Towards Privacy in Social Media and the Threat of Blackmail: The Views of a Group of Saudi Women

AbstractThe Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, or the Religious Police as it is commonly known in the west, has dealt with 1834 incidents of women being blackmailed by men in 2014 and of those 22% (N= 403) were initiated using Social Network Sites (SNS). In light of the reality about these crimes, this study asked the following questions: (1) Are Saudi women concerned about their privacy in SNS? (2) Are Saudi women worried about falling victim to blackmail in SNS? (3) Do Saudi women know how to change the privacy settings in SNS? (4) Are Saudi women comfortable with communicating across gender lines in SNS? To address these questions, qualitative interviews with 16 women who used Facebook regularly and a focus group discussion with another group of 10 Saudi female students were conducted. The findings of the study show that the Saudi women interviewed appeared concerned about their privacy in Facebook, worried about falling victim to blackmail, knew how to change the privacy settings and are not comfortable with communicating across gender lines. This suggests that the participants in this study are not the likely victims of blackmail crimes. Further research is needed to understand the profile of the victims of blackmail and the root cause of these crimes.

Sealing One's Online Wall Off From Outsiders

Pieces of personal information (e.g. contact details, photos, thoughts and opinions on issues and things) on online social network sites are susceptible to third-party surveillance. While users are provided with the possibility to prevent unwarranted access using available privacy settings, such settings may not often be adequately used. This research investigated the factors influencing the use of Facebook's privacy settings among young Dutch users based on the premises of Protection Motivation Theory and Technology Acceptance Model. A paper-based survey was implemented with 295 students in a vocational school in the eastern part of the Netherlands. Results of hierarchical regression analysis indicate that privacy valuation, self-efficacy, and respondents' age positively influenced the use of Facebook's privacy settings. Furthermore, the size of Facebook users' network negatively influences the use of those settings. Important results and points for future research are discussed in the paper.

Who discloses the most on Facebook?

With the development of new media, the issue of privacy and its determinants has become the subject of a large body of literature in recent years. The main objective of this study was to check whether loneliness is a predictor of putting private information on Facebook. The participants were 887 young people. Facebook Privacy Scale and Loneliness Scale were used. We showed that young age and loneliness are predictors of disclosure on Facebook. Moreover, junior high school students more often put private information on their Facebook profiles than senior high school and university students.

Young Adults’ Management of Privacy on Facebook with Multiple Generations of Family Members

How young adults communicate with multiple generations of family members today includes the use of Facebook to maintain family relationships. This study applies communication privacy management (CPM) theory to explore how young adults interact with and manage private information across different generations of their family through Facebook. Overall, 383 young adult participants completed an online survey about online and offline Facebook communication among siblings, parents, and grandparents. Participants interacted with siblings most often through Facebook, followed by parents, and grandparents. The interior family privacy orientation and Facebook privacy management practices significantly predicted variations of online and offline Facebook communication with siblings, parents, and grandparents about social media. The study also examined different types of Facebook socialization messages that young adults conveyed to family members about effective Facebook interactions and ways to preempt privacy breakdowns with their Facebook friends. Implications to CPM theory and future research recommendations are also identified.

Fuzzy Facebook privacy boundaries: Exploring mediated lurking, vague-booking, and Facebook privacy management

Managing privacy in the interconnected digital interaction environment of Facebook can be a complex yet vital endeavor. This study utilizes the theoretical framework of Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory to explore relationships between concern about mediated lurking, strategic ambiguity (or vague-booking) on Facebook, and Facebook privacy management. The study explores three hypotheses. Overall, 383 participants completed an online survey instrument. Greater concern about mediated lurking was related to more Facebook privacy management. More frequent use of strategic ambiguity on Facebook was related to less Facebook privacy management. Individuals who were more highly concerned about mediated lurking were also more likely to employ more frequent use of strategic ambiguity on Facebook. Men engaged in significantly greater use of strategic ambiguity on Facebook and enacted significantly less Facebook privacy management than did women. Implications and future research related to Facebook privacy management from a CPM perspective are explored.

Facebook apps and tagging: The trade‐off between personal privacy and engaging with friends

The use of social network sites offers many potential social benefits, but also raises privacy concerns and challenges for users. The trade‐off users have to make between using sites such as Facebook to connect with their friends versus protecting their personal privacy is not well understood. Furthermore, very little behavioral research has focused on how personal privacy concerns are related to information disclosures made by one's friends. Our survey study of 116 Facebook users shows that engaging with friends through tagging activity and third‐party application use is associated with higher levels of personal Facebook usage and a stronger emotional attachment to Facebook. However, users who have high levels of personal privacy concern and perceive a lack of effectiveness in Facebook's privacy policies tend to engage less frequently in tagging and app activities with friends, respectively. Our model and results explore illustrate the complexity of the trade‐off between privacy concerns, engaging with friends through tagging and apps, and Facebook usage.

Exploration of Influencing Factors that Effecting Facebook Privacy Awareness on Bangladeshi Undergraduate University Students

Our social technologies are increasingly serving as an obstacle to young people in the way that, the users of online social networking communities are disclosing large amounts of personal information and putting themselves at a variety of risks . While social media connect us to more digital relationships, at the same time, they deteriorate our ability to maintain healthy relationships in real life. User should familiarize themselves with sites' privacy options; its implications for their privacy settings and should make sure to understand who could access their profiles, and how that information could be used, whether information could end up in the hands of marketing companies, government or criminal investigation agencies, Political Campaign and employers have been known to visit such sites to check personal details about prospective workers. These bits and pieces of our personal identities could potentially have reputational harm. In fact, problem is not using the technology. The problem is using it unconsciously. Recently Bangladesh faced communal fracas due to unconscious religious posting on Facebook .On the top of that, political party are using facebook as a channel of their campaign which may create social violence. This scenery might be same to other country as if more than 1000 million users are using it. Author investigated to explore the factors relating privacy awareness on Bangladeshi undergraduate students to focus actual influencing factors and aggregated relationship with Awareness of Facebook Privacy. From our findings we concluded that, Bangladeshi students do care about their privacy on Facebook, and a large number of them are now making regular changes to their settings.

Privicy in Social Networks: An Analysis of Facebook

The only way to beware of the risks and threads of Facebook, the most commonly used social networking site in the world and Turkey, is to be a conscious user changing the default settings or simply not to have a Facebook account. In Turkey, there is still not any study in which personal information shared though social networking sites has been evaluated in terms of privacy in the literature. For this reason, the findings obtained as a result of this study have a great importance in the sense of displaying the general picture of the current situation and drawing attention to the risks of the issue in Turkey where there are not legal arrangements efficiently protecting the users. This study aims to investigate the Facebook privacy of information professionals who are members of KUTUP-L, and to determine the sensitivity and level of awareness of the information professionals in Turkey. Facebook user profiles of 400 information professionals each of whom are KUTUP-L members have been analyzed in the study considering 32 different privacy settings. A privacy score has been calculated for each user, and the relations between all privacy results have been analyzed. The findings at the end of the study show that information professionals in Turkey pay attention to privacy, and most of the users change the default settings in order to protect their personal information.

An Exploration of the Prevalence and Nature of Facebook Use by Australian Psychologists and Counselors

This study explored Facebook use by Australian helping professionals to determine how these professionals use the site. Thirty-six Australian Psychological Society psychologists (M = 50.66y, SD = 12.04y) and 40 Australian Counselling Association counselors (M = 50.5y, SD = 9.83y) participated in the study. A mixed design was used, with a survey distributed to participants via email, including questions relating to demographic information, general technology use (GTU), and Facebook usage. Independent sample t-tests found the professions did not differ in their technology use or Facebook visibility. A Chi squared analysis found no significant correlation between profession and having a Facebook profile. A standard multiple regression found that younger professionals with a wider knowledge of Facebook privacy settings were the most prevalent users of Facebook, with GTU having no significant correlation. Thematic analyses found that while Facebook users were aware of the need for privacy on Facebook, many were unaware of their appearance on Facebook and did not utilize sufficient privacy settings to secure their privacy properly. The findings have implications for the training of professionals in social networking privacy and the incorporation of social networking policies in organizations and ethical codes.

Facebook Privacy Attitudes

Because of Facebook’s ubiquitous nature, users who fail to properly configure their Facebook account privacy settings could be unintentionally revealing personal information to millions of people. This study analyzes data collected from African American and Hispanic college students regarding Facebook privacy setting attitudes and use. The findings indicate African American students have been members of Facebook longer and have more “Friends” than Hispanic students. Both ethnic groups spend about the same amount of time on Facebook during each session, although Hispanics log on more frequently. Virtually all the students claim awareness and use Facebook privacy settings. Hispanics have more restrictive Facebook privacy settings than African Americans. Neither ethnic group trusts Facebook to protect privacy, but African Africans show less concern while Hispanics indicate greater worry about Facebook privacy and data security. Both ethnic groups are more concerned about Internet privacy than Facebook privacy, Hispanics significantly more so.

Critical analysis of interactive media with software affordances

There is a long standing, and unsettled debate surrounding the ways that technology influences society. There is strong scholarship supporting the social construction perspective, arguing that the effects of technology are wholly socially and politically determined. This paper argues that the social constructivist position needs to be expanded if it can be useful for more than observing the ways technologies are designed and used. We need to develop better ways to talk about software, computer hardware, and networks, so that we can describe the social interpretations of these systems while accounting for their unique characteristics. We suggest using software affordances as a way to understand the semantics of software as interactive systems. Using Facebook privacy concerns as a case study, we argue that software affordances offer a useful lens for considering the social and political implications of interactive software systems, providing us more analytical tools to interpret, and not just describe, new technologies.

Teachers’ Facebook use: their use habits, intensity, self-disclosure, privacy settings, and activities on Facebook

This study investigated K12 teachers’ Facebook usage habits, intensity, self-disclosure, privacy settings and activities. A multi-method design was employed by collecting quantitative data from 616 teachers with a Facebook account using an online questionnaire and qualitative data from 32 teachers using online open-ended questions. The results of the study showed that Facebook seems to be part of teachers’ daily routines. Moreover, they revealed that teachers were less likely to share sensitive and potentially stigmatising personal information on Facebook. Teachers were also found to set most of their Facebook privacy settings as “Friends” by taking intimacy, unwanted contacts and potential threats into consideration. Furthermore, the findings indicated that teachers felt themselves less comfortable when parents and students viewed their Facebook profiles. In addition to social engagement, teachers pointed out several ways in which Facebook was used to support educational and professional development practices. Implications, limitations and directions to further studies are discussed.

Privacy in social networks: An analysis of Facebook

The only way to be aware of the risks and threats of Facebook, the most commonly used social networking site in the world and Turkey, is to be a careful user changing the default settings or simply not to have a Facebook account. In Turkey, there is still no study in which personal information shared though social networking sites has been evaluated in terms of privacy. For this reason, the findings obtained of this study have a great importance in the general picture of the current situation and drawing attention to the risks of the issue in Turkey where there are no legal arrangements effectively protecting the users from such sites. This study aims to investigate the Facebook privacy of information professionals who are members of KUTUP-L, and to determine the sensitivity and level of awareness of information professionals in Turkey. Facebook user profiles of 400 information professionals, all KUTUP-L members, have been analyzed in a study examining 32 different privacy settings. A privacy score has been calculated for each user, and the relations between privacy results have been analyzed. The findings at the end of the study show that information professionals in Turkey do pay attention to privacy, and most of the users change the default settings in order to protect their personal information.

Gender Differences in Student Attitude toward Privacy in Facebook

Facebook is the leading social media. However, a user’s failure to configure Facebook’s privacy settings properly may lead to unwanted or harmful information disclosure. In effect, a user could be sharing private information, such as name, address, contact information, gender, birthdate, views and affiliations with everyone. In this study, we present the results of an examination of students’ use of privacy settings in Facebook as well as their attitudes toward the risks associated with usage of both Facebook and the Internet in general. We also look for the existence of gender differences. Potential weaknesses of this study and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Privacy in Facebook According to Argentine Teenagers

A partir d'entrevistes a adolescents de diferents barris de ciutat de Buenos Aires, aquest treball explora com es reconfigura per part d'aquests usuaris l'esfera de l'intim en Facebook. L'objectiu va ser indagar sobre les representacions de joves de 17 i 18 anys en relacio amb aquest tema. Per mitja d'entrevistes en profunditat, es va interrogar als adolescents sobre els seus criteris per publicar continguts a xarxa social, proliferacio de rumors en plataforma i necessitat de preservar determinades informacions de mirada dels altres, especialment dels adults. Contra els diagnostics que adverteixen sobre la fi de intimitat, els adolescents entrevistats es van mostrar conscients de necessitat de controlar allo que es fa public en Facebook. En majoria dels casos, el pudor, el dolor o els sentiments significatius marquen el limit del que es postea en el mur, davant els ulls de tots. Mentre l'univers adult nomes apareix com a autoritat censora (els pares) o amenaca perillosa (homes madurs, pervertits i pedofils), majoria dels adolescents entrevistats va assenyalar necessitat d'un millor acompanyament per part dels majors. En tots els casos, els joves reclamen limits que siguin capaces de contenir sobreexposicio de intimitat a xarxa.