Students’ awareness on Facebook privacy

• Main Author: Mohd Nadzir, Maslinda
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/14824/1/GMAC2015%20%28Maslinda%29.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/14824/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Facebook (FB) is a popular social networking site that becomes a basic tool for social interaction and networking among users. Users are able to access their friends profile information. Users can also setting their personal information either visible privately or open for public. However, there are users who are not aware of the privacy setting. Therefore, others can see their status updates, photos and other things they post in Facebook. A preliminary study has been conducted in order to identify students’ awareness on Facebook privacy. The findings of this study revealed that most of the students aware about the privacy setting in Facebook. Therefore, most of them have not experiencing their Facebook account being hacked by others. Future research need to be conducted with a bigger sample size in order to better understand students’ awareness on social media privacy.