[e-privacy] First Monday: Aliases, creeping, and wall privacy: understanding privacy in the age of Facebook

[Andrea Glorioso]

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http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2775/2432

Aliases, creeping, and wall privacy: understanding privacy in the age
of Facebook

Abstract

This paper explores how 20-something Facebook users understand and
navigate privacy concerns. Based on a year-long ethnographic study in
Toronto, Canada, this paper looks at how - contrary to many mainstream
accounts - younger users do indeed care about protecting and
controlling their personal information. However, their concerns
revolve around what I call social privacy, rather than the more
conventional institutional privacy. This paper also examines the
somewhat subversive practices which users engaged in to enhance their
own social privacy, and in some cases, violate that of
others. Finally, this paper examines some of the reasons that users
may continue using the site, despite privacy concerns.

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