Women's View Points in the Field of Ethics and Privacy in Social Networks
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Background: Secure use of social networks by women is depends on the awareness of ethical issues, protecting personal information and identifying privacy. The purpose of this study was to investigate views and experiences with Internet safety and privacy protection among women.
Method: This study is ex post facto research. Population of study includes all graduate students of faculty of industry (N=339). Among all subjects, 205 participants were selected randomly. Data were collected by questionnaire. Data were analyzed by computer by descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The results show that women are more sensitive than men about privacy. There is a significant difference between the averages of privacy score of male and women users. It can be said that women are more sensitive about privacy and they put more restriction on their profile than men via privacy settings.
Conclusion: We found that women had greater privacy concerns and less identity information disclosure than men. |
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Keywords: Ethics, Privacy, Social Networks, Women |
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Special Received: 2016/06/30 | Accepted: 2016/06/30 | Published: 2016/06/30
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