Research Paper About Facebook

The privacy of human being has drastically changed with the advent of internet. On a scale of 1 to 10, the privacy of an internet user is a -1 or may be less. Social Networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc are mainly responsible for this privacy leakage. This short paper is dedicated to review the change of privacy policy by Facebook on December 2009 and its impact on public privacy and security.

It is shown, that one of the most prominent sources that prove a danger toward privacy, is through social media, specifically Facebook. This site alone

Acquisti and Gross point out that the unprecedented growth of online social networks including but not limited to Facebook and MySpace has brought with itself serious security and privacy concerns. In this particular study, the authors found out that privacy issues do not discourage individuals from being members of the network. Further, the authors also found out that even individuals who happen to be rather concerned about their privacy reveal a great deal of their personal information after joining the network. This study is highly relevant to my research as it clearly demonstrates that individuals do not take privacy issues seriously on joining Facebook. As the authors point out, the study in this case secured its support from the "CMU Berkman Faculty Development Fund, CMU CyLab and the Data Privacy Laboratory." Thus in addition to being relevant, the study can also be regarded credible.

Privacy: The issue of privacy stemmed from the exponentially increasing Internet use by teens. Particularly, when Facebook, the worlds most popular social media tool, abolished its exclusive availability to solely university students and become available to the general public, there was a dramatic increase in internet usage among younger web-users. With this increased internet usage came

The use of methodology is Primary data which includes Questionnaire. Apart with the Primary data collection, the paper is based on the information retrieved from the internet via journals, e-books and websites. The data has been presented with the use of bar diagrams and pie charts. Results and recommendations have been derived which are discussed further in this research paper.

Facebook is an example of how Social Media has influenced the lives of many Americans in today’s generation. Facebook has a negative and positive experience in many ways. Many people meet and become “friends” just by the click of a button. It has encouraged several users all over the country to interact and be social. It can also be a way of finding old friends of yours just by typing in their name in the search bar. Several users pretend being someone else by creating a fake page because they are hiding behind their insecurities. As a generation, e tend to care less about privacy because we update our status on where we are, or what we are doing. This is scary at times because it is easy for anyone to access your information at any time. Facebook,

The data was collected with certain procedures. Initially, comprehend the research topic and objective, secondly, sketch the interview question by following the guidelines provided on QUT Blackboard as framework of the research. Subsequently, record and conduct the interview with qualified respondent. Then transcribed the interview conservation and uploaded to the online survey system. Lastly, download three other transcripts from class database of interview transcript.

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. As of December last year, Facebook called its 500 million users to review their privacy settings at the launch of its new user control tools which allow the user to control their information easily depending on

Privacy has become a prominent topic in academic and social debates. People are gradually sharing more and more personal information as their dependence on the Internet and online services. After all, privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. In combination, these qualities may lead to a safer and prosperous standard of living. The same notion can be applied to social media particularly Facebook. In general, the understanding of privacy is different in every age group, from teenagers (13-17), young adults (18-24), and adults (25 and older) each feel differently about the outcome of posting personal information online.

The research mainly examines the privacy concerns of the young adolescents with respect to their accounts on Social Media Platforms. The focus of the research intends to understand the privacy protection behaviors on social networks. The targeted population for this research paper was young adolescents. The result revealed that the young adults are concerned about their privacy settings be it Males or Females. In addition, the Females have a more proactive approach towards the Privacy settings on Social Networking Sites especially Facebook. The research used a large- scale survey of young adults through Questionnaire. The research examines the relationship between privacy concern/aspect and Facebook as well as Privacy concerns and Gender. The research was conducted in locality of Mumbai. The Data was analyzed with the aid of Statistical tools in a way to establish a study on the privacy concerns of Today’s young adults.

This study will use quantitative methods of research. The major advantage of using quantitative research design is that it is an exceptional method for making conclusions and agreeing or disagreeing to any

This study used purposive samples since they had a specific criteria of college freshmen between the ages of 18-19 years old, have a public Facebook account that has been active with posts within the past 30 days, have an email address or phone number either posted on Facebook or in the specific university directory (Whitehill, 2013, p.123). In order to be a part of the study the student had to meet these requirements since the researchers were finding information about the transition of college freshmen.

First of all, the sample size will be evaluated. In this research, it used two types of methods, one is survey,

This study will apply the quantitative research method, rather than the qualitative method for various reasons. First, the research problem of identifying the

This part will presents the details of the research design and methodology that use to conduct the study and it will includes: research design, population and sampling techniques, data source and data collection methods and finally research procedures and data analysis methods will be presented.