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Privacy in social networks: An analysis of Facebook

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  • Külcü, Özgür
  • Henkoğlu, Türkay

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The only way to be aware of the risks and threats of Facebook, the most commonly used social networking site in the world and Turkey, is to be a careful user changing the default settings or simply not to have a Facebook account. In Turkey, there is still no study in which personal information shared though social networking sites has been evaluated in terms of privacy. For this reason, the findings obtained of this study have a great importance in the general picture of the current situation and drawing attention to the risks of the issue in Turkey where there are no legal arrangements effectively protecting the users from such sites. This study aims to investigate the Facebook privacy of information professionals who are members of KUTUP-L, and to determine the sensitivity and level of awareness of information professionals in Turkey. Facebook user profiles of 400 information professionals, all KUTUP-L members, have been analyzed in a study examining 32 different privacy settings. A privacy score has been calculated for each user, and the relations between privacy results have been analyzed. The findings at the end of the study show that information professionals in Turkey do pay attention to privacy, and most of the users change the default settings in order to protect their personal information.

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  • Külcü, Özgür & Henkoğlu, Türkay, 2014. "Privacy in social networks: An analysis of Facebook," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 34(6), pages 761-769.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ininma:v:34:y:2014:i:6:p:761-769
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.07.006
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