The conflict between privacy and self-disclosure in Social Networking Services

Abstract

The Social Networking Services (SNS) allow users with similar interests to build relationship on online network, and community activities via information sharing, networking, self-disclosure. To participate in SNS, people provide personal data. This study focuses on whether the personal needs of privacy and the one of self-disclosure have a one-dimensional relationship with each other or are independent from each other. Authors review research articles both on information privacy and on self-disclosure. This research also focuses on the dynamic relations between the needs for self-disclosure and privacy attitudes among SNS users.

The role of risk‐benefit and privacy analysis to understand different uses of social media by Generations X, Y, and Z in Indonesia

“…Studies have addressed privacy concerns on social media. Some studies revealed that anxiety about privacy did not affect behaviour in terms of social media use (Gross & Acquisti, ; Joinson, Reips, Buchanan, & Schofield, ; Shin, Ko, & Jang, ), while others stated that social media users deliberately use the privacy strategies to protect their privacy (eg Lee, Park, and Kim ()). Research has also shown that information manipulation, blurring or reducing information accuracy, can protect privacy on social media (Joinson, Paine, Buchanan, & Reips, ; Price, Adam, & Nuseibeh, ; Wagner, Hassanein, & Head, ).…”