Information Technology

Privacy and Social Networking Sites

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College students are relying on the Internet to make connections with other people every day (Lukianoff and Creeley, 2007; Verga, 2007; Hodge, 2006). As the Internet has developed and grown, so have the capabilities for inter- action. Social networking sites are a part of college students’ regular daily lives (Bugeja, 2006; Jones and Madden, 2002). With this new technology, questions about ethical use and the lines of what is private and what is not have become so blurry and misunderstood that students can find themselves involved in situations that are less than desirable. Social networking sites are a group of Web sites that provide people with the opportunity to create an online profile and to share that pro- file with others (Barnes, 2006). There are sites to meet almost any topic of interest. The two most commonly used are MySpace, with over 80 million unique users, and Facebook, with over 60 million unique users, about half of whom are college students. MySpace and Facebook have a variety of options and applications that make them attractive to a broad audience. Because these are the most commonly used social networking sites, we focus our discussion on them.

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: ., 2002

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Privacy and Social Networking Sites

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