id
	12864
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12864
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Privacy preserving actions of older adults on social media: Exploring the behavior of opting out of information sharing
Creator
	Chakraborty, Rajarshi
	Vishik, Claire
	Rao, H. Raghav
Date
	2013
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Social media are being fast adopted by older adults for extending their social relationships. However along with the adoption, there have been concerns about risky issues regarding privacy leakages and information sharing hazards. Such risks are partially due to the fact that seniors (knowingly or unknowingly) share private information that may be misused by others. In this paper we explore the privacy-preserving actions regarding information sharing for this demography on one social media platform — Facebook. Facebook is the largest social networking platform today and many of its privacy related practices have been in the news recently. More specifically, we study the information sharing behavior of the elderly by observing the extent to which they opt out of sharing information publicly about themselves on their profile pages. In addition, we also observe how much overlap exists between these older Facebook users and their respective friends in terms of their public information sharing habits and explore the differences across gender. Finally for comparative purposes we also collect data on a sample of younger Facebook users and conduct an analysis.
Is Part Of
	Decision Support Systems
Cited by
	11111
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2013.01.004
Issn
	0167-9236
Issue
	4
Pages
	948-956
Short title
	Privacy preserving actions of older adults on social media
Uri
	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923613000134
Volume
	55
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/3E4AWKYD/item-list
In series
	1. Social Media Research and Applications 2. Theory and Applications of Social Networks

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