In Fred Stutzman and Jacob Kramer-Duffield's artcicle "Friends Only: Examining a Privacy-Enhancing Behavior on Facebook", Stutzman and Kramer-Duffield explore the average undergraduate's methods, views, and practices when it comes to online social networking, exploring perceived audiences and potential consequences, and ultimately suggesting a "friends-only audience" approach to networking. They first describe how to go "friends only", and measures and benefits of doing so, and then explore, statistically, the difference between positive and negative posting, and how there are layers of audiences, each layer with a different expectancy to what they are looking for, and how those using social networking cites should either go friends-only, or be willing to only post things considered appropriate by the outermost layer, such as school faculty members, potential employers, family and legal figures. They strive to develop a common understanding of the social repercussions of networking, and how students can take several different measures to reach a "friends-only" approach and dispel the common misconception that it is the social network's duty to keep people's information from those they do not want to view it, even though they have the power to do it themselves. Their intended audience are those who use social networking sites and those who are involved or interested in the issue of online privacy.
Article Link: http://fredstutzman.com/tmp/Stutzman_CHI2010.pdf
MLA Citation:
Stutzman, Fred; Kramer-Duffield, Jacob. Friends Only: Examing a Privacy-Enhancing Behavior on
Facebook. School of Information and Life Science, University of North Caronlina at Chapel Hill, n.d.
Web. 9 March 2012.
Annotation:
The article's definition of "friends-only" and description of different kinds of online privacy regulations and conditions under different privacy settings on online social networks helped to form a better-supported proposal.
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