Privacy and confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are always the big concern in New Media generation. Nowadays, people tend to become more open in social networking. A lot of people have a habit to share their information on social networking. They share their friends, there location, what they have, where they have been,… From a Facebook accounts, we can figure out a lot of information about that person. It will be safe when you share your information with your friends or the person that you know well; however, you never know who is tracking you. That would be a great threat for you when you public too much personal information on social networking. According to a report about trust and privacy concern within social networking sites “100% of the Facebook members reveal their real name in their profile, compared to 66.7% of MySpace members. 94% of Facebook members include their email address, compared to about 40% of MySpace members.” (Catherine Dwyer. Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Katia Passrini, 2007).

References:

Catherine Dwyer. Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Katia Passrini.” Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace”(2007).AMCIS 2007Proceedings.Paper339.http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2007/339/?utm_source=aisel.aisnet.org%2Famcis2007%2F339&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages