PRIVACY CONCERNS IN FACEBOOK SITE

Vandana Singh

No 2014-12-07, Working papers from Voice of Research

Abstract: Today social networking sites play an important role and inexpensive way to maintain existing relationships and present oneself. However, the increasing use of online sites give rise to privacy concerns and risks. All Internet sites are also under attack from phishers, fraudsters, and spammers. They aim to steal user information and expose users to unwanted spam. They have so many resources at their disposal.This paper studies the awareness of college students regarding the privacy in Facebook.The authors intended to know how students are concerned about their privacy in Facebook, and the extent to which they use the privacy enhancement enablers. In our study, we present results from a survey of 200 users of Facebook who are studying in college. The results show, that most of our respondents, who are active users of Facebook, not disclosing the considerable amount of private information,they are well aware of the visibility of their information to people, they change their privacy setting accordingly and do not accept the strangers friend request. Furthermore, Facebook’s updated privacy policy and the terms of use were largely known by our respondents. Key words: privacy, Social networking sites,Facebook

Date: 2014-12
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