2. Do you feel that your privacy is limited due to
your use of social networking sites?
Important to communication because SNS are a
major way in which our society communicates
with others, yet through my research I have
found that many people feel that SNS limit our
privacy which is bothersome to those who use
them.
3. People would feel that their privacy was being
compromised through their use of social
networking sites
The majority of people who took the survey
would be in the age group of 20-24
More females than males would take survey
People will utilize privacy settings
Their reasoning for implementing them will be
to avoid their pictures and postings they think
will hinder their chances for certain jobs & fear
of family members seeing them.
4. People feel their privacy is limited because of social
networking sites.
People use privacy settings in order to gain some
privacy, but they know it is not always guaranteed.
Because social networking sites are so common
now, people are becoming more weary of what they
post as far as pictures and comments because they
know it can potentially be used against them
Ex: potential employers, family members, school officials, etc.
5. Although people claim they know the repercussions of
posting certain images & comments, some people
(especially younger adolescents) do not understand
that once something is posted, and they’re utilizing
privacy settings it does not mean that there will not be
consequences.
Ex: Later in life those same pictures they didn’t think
were inappropriate at the time could resurface and
have a negative effect.
Pictures involving alcohol use, etc.
This is why it is important to realize how little privacy
social networking sites actually provide.
6. Survey
Series of multiple choice, yes or no, and open
ended questions.
Eight questions all together
39 people took the survey
I think that having various types of questions
allowed for people to elaborate where
necessary as well as be straightforward, which
seemed to be effective.
7. First asked age group
Age 15-19 = 10.3%
Age 20-24 = 66.7%
Age 25-29 = 12.8%
Age 30-34 = 2.6%
Age 35-39 = 0%
Age 40 and over = 7.7%
Age is important because it gives perspective on who
the majority was who took the survey.
8. Asked which social networking sites they used
most often.
Social networking sites used
most often
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
None
9. 46.2% said YES
53.8% said NO
*Went against my expectation
I gave an option to elaborate on this question if
people felt it was limited and only 17 people
responded. The results varied from feeling
their was a lack in privacy settings to
experiences with their profile getting hacked
into.
10. Which privacy settings do you use?
hide albums & pics
(65.6%)
hide comments & other
postings (50%)
profile cannot be
searched (18.8%)
only specific people can
see entire profile (68.8%)
approve postings to
page(31.3%)
approve those who
want to view page
(18.8%)
none (3.1%)
11. The previous pie chart is contradicting the
question of whether or not people thought their
privacy was limited due to using social
networking sites.
If people did not think that their privacy was
limited to using SNS, why did so many people
implement privacy settings?
In the last question of the survey, people were
asked to clarify why they used privacy settings.
12. The most common answers for why people
used privacy settings was because they were
afraid that their future employers would /
could use it against them.
Felt uneasy about random people being able to
see their profiles. Privacy settings gave them a
peace of mind.
Realize that once something is posted there is
no telling who is copying, using, altering, etc.
the content of your page.
13. The results of my survey were a close representation of the
information I gathered in my research.
People were weary of similar issues in my research and in
my survey.
Some of the answers I expected to get turned out not to
happen.
The larger implications of this survey are that people DO
feel that their privacy is compromised, but because of
privacy settings they feel more at ease.
A contradiction of my research and survey was that people
utilize privacy settings to avoid people seeing certain
things, but the research said that people are understanding
that even with privacy settings, privacy isn’t guaranteed.
14. Change the wording on some questions
I think the wording on some questions confused
people.
Example: Asking if people thought their privacy was
limited, majority said no yet people still said they
implemented privacy settings.
15. Try and reach out to a bigger sample size
I posted it on Facebook & asked to have it sent out to
the class, but next time I would print it and hand it
out in the library, etc.
Example: I only had a sample size of 39 people and the
majority of them were ages 20-24.
16. There were some issues that were out of my
control such as--
Some people skipped questions
Some people didn’t elaborate where asked to
A lot of answers were very vague
**By people skipping some questions it technically
made my sample size even smaller.
