REGRETS: A New Corpus of Regrettable (Self-)Disclosures on Social Media

Simo, Hervais; Kreutzer, Michael

doi:10.1109/infocomwkshps54753.2022.9798377

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“…Anecdotal examples of regrettable disclosures abound, and social media have enabled empirical research on the subject. To quantify the degree of impulsive disclosing in the social network space, Simo and Kreutzer (2022) collected a corpus of nearly 5 million regrettable posts and comments on 30 different popular social media platforms over a 9‐month period. A separate study, focusing only on a single social media site (Twitter), found that, of a sample of 544,683 tweets retrieved from 2017, one‐quarter contained information that their system identified as sensitive and likely to be regretted, an incredible amount given the 140‐character limit per tweet at the time (Geetha et al, 2022).…”

Section: The Drive To Disclosementioning

confidence: 99%

The drive to disclose

Carbone

Loewenstein

2022

Consumer Psychology Review

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Disclosure is a pervasive behavior critical to the human experience, and has been the focus of both empirical research and theorizing by social and consumer psychologists. This work has typically characterized disclosure as a deliberate and strategic act, the product of a careful weighing of costs and benefits. In this paper, we argue that, although some disclosure can be deliberate and "rational," much of it exhibits drive-like qualities. We review evidence to suggest that, much like other drive states (e.g., hunger), the desire to disclose can be visceral, driven by emotions and physical arousal, and satiated through the act of disclosing. And just as more basic drives evolved to motivate adaptive action but can engender maladaptive behavior (e.g., over-eating), disclosures can likewise be impulsive and ultimately regrettable.We propose a dual-process model that encompasses both viscerally driven and deliberate disclosures and that makes sense of the conflicts that often arise between the two.

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Section: The Drive To Disclosementioning

confidence: 99%