Comparing the Configuration of Privacy Settings on Social Network Sites Based on Different Default Options

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Tschersich
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Privacy Settings ◽  
Default Options

scholarly journals A developmental perspective regarding the behaviour of adolescents, young adults, and adults on social network sites

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter M. P. Steijn
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Privacy Settings ◽  
Development Data ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
Age Range

Young people are often seen as a generation that shares too much, too openly online. This paper provides support for taking a developmental perspective to understand individuals behaviour’ on social network sites in the forms of sharing information and the type of contacts. Adolescents, young adults, and adults’ use of social network sites was investigated and compared to developmental expectations based on the needs for relationship development and identity development. Data were gathered by means of an online survey among 1008 respondents in the age range of 12 to 83-year-old. The results showed that adolescents have most contacts and were most likely to add unknown contacts, while young adults disclosed most information and adjusted privacy settings most often. These results match expectations based on adolescents’ and young adults’ greater need for relationship and identity development compared to adults. Implications of these findings in relation to future regulations of online behaviour are discussed.

scholarly journals Control your Facebook: An analysis of online privacy literacy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Bartsch ◽  
Tobias Dienlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Privacy Regulation ◽  
Privacy Settings ◽  
Per Se

For an effective and responsible communication on social network sites (SNSs) users must decide between withholding and disclosing personal information. For this so-called privacy regulation, users need to have the respective skills—in other words, they need to have online privacy literacy. In this study, we discuss factors that potentially contribute to and result from online privacy literacy. In an online questionnaire with 630 Facebook users, we found that people who spend more time on Facebook and who have changed their privacy settings more frequently reported to have more online privacy literacy. People with more online privacy literacy, in turn, felt more secure on Facebook and implemented more social privacy settings. A mediation analysis showed that time spend on Facebook and experience with privacy regulation did not per se increase safety and privacy behavior directly, stressing the importance of online privacy literacy as a mediator to a safe and privacy-enhancing online behavior. We conclude that Internet experience leads to more online privacy literacy, which fosters a more cautious privacy behavior on SNSs.

Facebooking Alone? Millennials’ Use of Social Network Sites and Volunteering

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-joo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Online Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Network Site ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Mixed Messages

The younger generation’s widespread use of online social network sites has raised concerns and debates about social network sites’ influence on this generation’s civic engagement, whether these sites undermine or promote prosocial behaviors. This study empirically examines how millennials’ social network site usage relates to volunteering, using the 2013 data of the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort Study. The findings reveal a positive association between a moderate level of Facebook use and volunteering, although heavy users are not more likely to volunteer than nonusers. This bell-shaped relationship between Facebook use and volunteering contrasts with the direct correlation between participation in off-line associational activities and volunteering. Overall, the findings suggest that it is natural to get mixed messages about social network sites’ impacts on civic engagement, and these platforms can be useful tools for getting the word out and recruiting episodic volunteers.

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