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Social Networking is taking the world by storm and with over 750 million users worldwide actively using Facebook alone, the growth of this phenomenon is staggering. Social networks allow users to interact with each other through posting messages on each other’s walls and sharing personal information. In this paper, we observe the threats which are affluent in the social networking world and apply them to the perceived organisational values placed on using social networks. Through observing the threats we analyse the ways in which users attitudes and behaviours towards social networking impacts on the privacy of the organisation as well as the individual. We evaluate the usability of the social networking websites’ privacy settings in order to establish how easy it is for users to maintain their desired level of privacy, and discuss the needs for a Privacy Dashboard in order to prompt users to manipulate their privacy settings in order to reduce the level of information they share.
Tyler-Dimond M, Atkinson S