NDLI: Facebook users have become much more private: A large-scale study

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dey, R. Jelveh, Z. Ross, K.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, US (Dey, R.; Jelveh, Z.; Ross, K.)
Abstract	We investigate whether Facebook users have become more private in recent years. Specifically, we examine if there have been any important trends in the information Facebook users reveal about themselves on their public profile pages since early 2010. To this end, we have crawled the public profile pages of 1.4 million New York City (NYC) Facebook users in March 2010 and again in June 2011. We have found that NYC users in our sample have become dramatically more private during this period. For example, in March 2010 only 17.2% of users in our sample hid their friend lists, whereas in June 2011, just 15 months later, 52.6% of the users hid their friend lists. We explore privacy trends for several personal attributes including friend list, networks, relationship, high school name and graduation year, gender, and hometown. We find that privacy trends have become more pronounced for certain demographics. Finally, we attempt to determine the primary causes behind the dramatic decrease in the amount of information Facebook users reveal about themselves to the general public.
Starting Page	346
Ending Page	352
File Size	506764
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467309059
e-ISBN	9781467309073
e-ISBN	9781467309066
DOI	10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197508
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-03-19
Publisher Place	Switzerland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Facebook Privacy Educational institutions Cities and towns Electronic mail Data privacy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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