Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences

By Bernhard Debatin, Jennette P. Lovejoy, Annamarie Horn, Brittany N. Hughes. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Motivators of online vulnerability: The impact of social network site use and FOMO (2017, methodology): “Concerns have been raised regarding increased self-disclosure and friending on social network sites due to their apparent role in increasing opportunities for users to experience incidents of online vulnerability (Debatin et al., 2009; Davidson & Martellozzo, 2012).”
Norms of online expressions of emotion: Comparing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp (2017, positive): “While most social media platforms allow users to adjust their privacy settings, the default settings often function as the standard (Debatin et al., 2009).”
Privacy Concerns and Behaviors of People with Visual Impairments (2015, background): “One challenge they mentioned is the notoriously volatile and complicated nature of Face-book’s privacy settings [8, 20].”
Tweens' conceptions of privacy online: implications for educators (2013, background): “Social network sites like Facebook have become a central gathering place and mode of communication for young people (De Souza and Dick 2009; Debatin et al. 2009).”
Design for value change (2018, background): “Studies suggest that the use of Facebook has led to more lax attitudes towards privacy even if people have good reasons to be concerned about privacy intrusions (Debatin et al. 2009).”
Evaluating the influence of YouTube advertising for attraction of young customers (2016, background): “There are many ways to measure advertising effectiveness, such as through brand awareness (Dehghani et al., 2013), brand value (Cobb-Walgren, Ruble, & Donthu, 1995) and purchase intentions, in which consumers form perceptions about the physical characteristics of a brand from various information…”
Privacy Visor: Method Based on Light Absorbing and Reflecting Properties for Preventing Face Image Detection (2013, background): “Due to the popularization of portable devices with built-in cameras and advances in social networking services and image search technologies, information such as when and where a photographed person was at the time of the photograph is revealed by the posting of photos online without the person’s pe”
A survey on privacy in mobile participatory sensing applications (2011, background): “privacy settings, and to understand the implications of their settings and actions on their privacy [50].”
Too Many Facebook “Friends”? Content Sharing and Sociability Versus the Need for Privacy in Social Network Sites (2010, background): “Further, as Debatin et al. (2009) pointed out, “the category ‘friend’ is very broad and ambiguous in the online world; it may include anyone from an intimate friend to a casual acquaintance or a complete stranger of whom only their online identity is known” (p. 87).”
Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research (2016, background): “The example social media study in Table 5 is structured in an explanatory sequential style with a quantitative survey on the topic of Face-book privacy followed by focus groups to deepen understanding of survey results (Debatin, Lovejoy, Horn, & Hughes, 2009).”
Digital Literacy and Privacy Behavior Online (2013, background): “Recently, the hotly contested privacy settings on social networking sites, such as Facebook, focused serious scholarly attention on personalized data control (e.g., boyd & Hargittai, 2010; Debatin, Lovejoy, Horn, & Hughes, 2009; Fogel & Nehmad, 2009).”
Research Note - Privacy Concerns and Privacy-Protective Behavior in Synchronous Online Social Interactions (2013, background): “Hence they can further disseminate the information and exploit it for marketing solicitations or other misuses (Debatin et al. 2009).”
Exploring User Perceptions of Discrimination in Online Targeted Advertising (2017, background): “Consumer privacy issues related to targeted advertising have received considerable attention from researchers, media, and government agencies for several years [5, 9, 14, 16, 18, 19, 22, 33, 34, 40, 44].”
Online engagement factors on Facebook brand pages (2013, background): “2008), and privacy and information disclosure (Debatin et al. 2009; Krasnova et al. 2009).”
Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook (2013, background): “7For example, an individual may have created, and then deleted, their account, which effectively 14 To understand the panel composition, we analyzed member self-disclosures at t0, the date of panel entry for all members.”
Older and Wiser? Facebook Use, Privacy Concern, and Privacy Protection in the Life Stages of Emerging, Young, and Middle Adulthood (2015, background): “They are found to have more computer literacy and feel, therefore, safer online than the older generations (Debatin et al., 2009).”