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Facebook apps and tagging: The trade-off between personal privacy and engaging with friends

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Pamela Wisniewski,

Heather Lipford,

Emmanuel Bello-OgunuAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 66, Issue 9

Pages 1883 - 1896

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23299

Published: 01 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The use of social network sites offers many potential social benefits, but also raises privacy concerns and challenges for users. The trade-off users have to make between using sites such as Facebook to connect with their friends versus protecting their personal privacy is not well understood. Furthermore, very little behavioral research has focused on how personal privacy concerns are related to information disclosures made by one's friends. Our survey study of 116 Facebook users shows that engaging with friends through tagging activity and third-party application use is associated with higher levels of personal Facebook usage and a stronger emotional attachment to Facebook. However, users who have high levels of personal privacy concern and perceive a lack of effectiveness in Facebook's privacy policies tend to engage less frequently in tagging and app activities with friends, respectively. Our model and results explore illustrate the complexity of the trade-off between privacy concerns, engaging with friends through tagging and apps, and Facebook usage.

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