Aliases, Creeping, and Wall Cleaning: Understanding Privacy in the Age of Facebook

By Kate Raynes-Goldie. First Monday, 2010

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This paper explores how 20-something Facebook users understand and navigate privacy concerns. Based on a year long ethnographic study in Toronto, Canada, this paper looks at how - contrary to many mainstream accounts - younger users do indeed care about protecting and controlling their personal information. However, their concerns revolve around what I call social privacy, rather than the more conventional institutional privacy. This paper also examines the somewhat subversive practices which users engaged in to enhance their own social privacy, and in some cases, violate that of others. Finally, this paper examines some of the reasons that users may continue using the site, despite privacy concerns.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Tweets are forever: a large-scale quantitative analysis of deleted tweets (2013, background): “Some Facebook users who are concerned about privacy delete all their posts periodically [20].”
Older and Wiser? Facebook Use, Privacy Concern, and Privacy Protection in the Life Stages of Emerging, Young, and Middle Adulthood (2015, result): “The findings are in line with the growing body of literature that claims that young people are privacy aware (Livingstone, 2008; Raynes-Goldie, 2010; Tufekci, 2012).”
Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions (2020, background): “Importantly, Raynes-Goldie (2010) refers to the distinction between social privacy and institutional privacy: social privacy refers to instances when known individuals are involved, whereas institutional privacy refers to how institutions manage personal data.”
"I regretted the minute I pressed share": a qualitative study of regrets on Facebook (2011, background): “In a year-long ethnographic study of Facebook users in their 20s, Raynes-Goldie found various strategies including using aliases, deleting wall posts, untagging photos, and creating multiple accounts to circumvent Facebook's default privacy settings [41].”
A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences (2012, neutral): “By replacing “Facebook” in the above questions with other OSNs (e.g., MySpace, LinkedIn), researchers can effectively analyze core differences and similarities among OSNs.”
Too Many Facebook “Friends”? Content Sharing and Sociability Versus the Need for Privacy in Social Network Sites (2010, background): “, Chistofieds, Muise, & Desmarais, 2009; Livingstone, 2008; Stutzman, 2006) or those in their 20s (e.g., Debatin et al., 2009; Raynes-Goldie, 2010).”
Dressing up Tinderella: interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder (2016, background): “Since its inception, Facebook has promoted a real name culture, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressing that this enhances the transparency of communication among users (Raynes-Goldie, 2010).”