A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States

Abstract

Teenagers will freely give up personal information to join social networks on the Internet. Afterwards, they are surprised when their parents read their journals. Communities are outraged by the personal information posted by young people online and colleges keep track of student activities on and off campus. The posting of personal information by teens and students has consequences. This article will discuss the uproar over privacy issues in social networks by describing a privacy paradox; private versus public space; and, social networking privacy issues. It will finally discuss proposed privacy solutions and steps that can be taken to help resolve the privacy paradox.

Weblogs as instruments for reflection on action in teacher education

“…Paradoxically, the student's need for a safe learning environment seems to be at odds with interconnectivity and interactivity, two of the defining (social) affordances of weblogs and other second generation webbased tools (see Greenhow et al, 2009;McLoughlin & Lee, 2008;Wang, Woo, & Zhao, 2009 should be discussed by teachers and students. Students should be alerted to the dangers of 'total openness' on the internet, a topic that should be part of the media literacy curriculum (Barnes, 2006;Greenhow et al, 2009). The desirable extent of 'openness' should be subject to further research.…”

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“…This reality creates, at the same time, an opportunity for firms and a risk for people, youngsters who become adults will have problems to shift their generality through a more reserved profile and, maybe, they could become the target of different firms that know these people since their young age. Barnes (2006) called this situation the privacy paradox: the author argues that it occurs when users, especially teenagers, are not aware of the Internet nature.…”

“…Men are more inclined to use the Internet for entertainment, while women use it to communicate or interact with others, also the idea each group has about privacy is different: women are in fact more predisposed to protect their privacies. At the same way, while adults care about the privacy invasion threatened by markets and information researchs, on the contrary teenagers and young adults freely disclose personal and private information on SNSs (Barnes, 2006). This reality creates, at the same time, an opportunity for firms and a risk for people, youngsters who become adults will have problems to shift their generality through a more reserved profile and, maybe, they could become the target of different firms that know these people since their young age.…”

Coprivacy: Towards a Theory of Sustainable Privacy

“…The availability of information on relationships (trust level, relationship type) has increased with the advent of the Semantic Web and raises privacy concerns: knowing who is trusted by whom and to what extent discloses a lot about the user's thoughts and feelings. For a list of related abuses see [2]. In [5], we described a new protocol offering private relationships in an SN while allowing resource access through indirect relationships without requiring a mediating trusted third party.…”