Privacy Awareness in Social Networks

Abstract

Although social networking environments have entered our lives as online internet applications which are used to interact with other users by creating their own content, they have become an immense source of information today. These data mainly contain personal data, especially covering profiles and shares of users but reveals a great dilemma. On the one hand, users want to communicate with their friends, interact and share their information, on the other hand, they are concerned about the privacy and security issues. In this study, privacy awareness in social networks and methods used in literature for measuring privacy awareness was investigated and discussed in detail. The findings, suggestions and evaluations were finally presented.