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Sharing ephemeral information in online social networks: Privacy perceptions and behaviours
B Reynolds, J Venkatanathan, J Gonçalves, V Kostakos
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics | SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN | Published : 2011
Abstract
This paper presents a study where the online Facebook practices of a sample of users (n=103) was analysed over a period of two years, via the scraping of data in Facebook and the collection of questionnaire data. The data allows for a contrast between implicit and explicit attitudes regarding Facebook and online sharing. Our analysis reveals that while overall privacy concerns are not reflected in posting behaviour, awareness and familiarity with privacy controls is. This is supported by contrasting users' attitudes regarding day-to-day sharing against actual behaviour on Facebook. We theorise that there exists a failure in translating users' privacy needs into a social-technical environment..
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Awarded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Tasos Spiliotopoulos for his valuable comments and everyone who took part in the study. This work is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) grant CMU-PT/SE/0028/2008 (Web Security and Privacy).