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SocInfo 2013: Social Informatics pp 119–128Cite as

Factors That Influence Social Networking Service Private Information Disclosure at Diverse Openness and Scopes

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In this paper, we present findings about factors that influence private information disclosure activities in social networking service (SNS). Our study is based on two data sets: (1) Survey Data, responses to a questionnaire consisting of items such as users’ privacy settings, motivations of using SNS (motivations), and risk awareness, and (2) Public Data, consisting of user profiles that were opened to the public. Openness score is calculated from the number of disclosed items. We study influential factors and their rankings at varying openness scores and disclosure scopes. Our findings reveal that, gender, profile photo, certain motivations, and risk awareness highly affect private information disclosure activities. However the ranking of influential factors is not uniform. Gender and profile photo have greater influence, however their influence becomes lower and loses significance as openness is getting higher, falling behind motivations and number of friends. We also observe consistent tendencies between both data.

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  1. Graduate School of Information, Production and System, Waseda University, Japan

    Basilisa Mvungi & Mizuho Iwaihara

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  1. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, 606-8501, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Adam Jatowt

  2. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim  & Bing Tian Dai  & 

  3. Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 1320 E. 10th St., LI 011, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Ying Ding

  4. Department of Integrated Psychological Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1-1-155 Uegahara, 662-8501, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

    Asako Miura

  5. Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-2 Kasuga, 305-8550, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan

    Taro Tezuka

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Campus Côte de Nacre, F-14032, Caen Cedex, France

    Gaël Dias

  7. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics,, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  8. Department of Communication, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Andrew Flanagin

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Mvungi, B., Iwaihara, M. (2013). Factors That Influence Social Networking Service Private Information Disclosure at Diverse Openness and Scopes. In: Jatowt, A., et al. Social Informatics. SocInfo 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_11

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