Issues affecting teens' privacy behavior in social media

Abstract:

This article provides recommendation to increase the privacy protection of teens in social media. Many areas are analyzed to develop these recommendations. First, it presents two types of teen behaviors towards risk; Privacy risk-taking behaviors and Privacy risk-coping behaviors. Then, the intrinsic factor that affects the behavior of teens such as their perceived importance of privacy, their self-efficacy towards privacy, past bad experiences, peers' concerns and gender. Thirdly, it discusses teens and parents' strategies to protect teens privacy. It analyses the need for parents to apply both strategies direct intervention and active mediation to appropriately shape their teens' privacy behavior. Then, it discusses the risk-centric model where teens develop their skills to protect their privacy when they face moderate real threats. Lastly, this report analyzes different recommendations that are clustered in three categories. The first category is about teens' education towards privacy behavior in social media. The second category talks about the role of external individual's (parents, teachers, and peers) in the education towards teen privacy. The last category remarks the improvements required in the development of Software and Technologies to address these.

Año de publicación:

2017

Keywords:

• Educations
• Social media
• parents
• Behavior
• privacy
• teens

Fuente:

scopus