Abstract
Changing a Twitter account’s privacy setting between public and protected changes the visibility of past tweets. By inspecting the privacy setting of more than 100K Twitter users over 3 months, we noticed that over 40% of those users changed their privacy setting at least once with around 16% changing it over 5 times. This observation motivated us to explore the reasons why people switch their privacy settings. We studied these switching phenomena quantitatively by comparing the tweeting behaviour of users when public vs protected, and qualitatively using two follow-up surveys (n=100, n=324) to understand potential reasoning behind the observed behaviours. Our quantitative analysis shows that users who switch privacy settings mention others and share hashtags more when their setting is public. Our surveys highlighted that users turn protected to share personal content and regulate boundaries while they turn public to interact with others in ways the protected setting prevents.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Editors | Simone Barbosa, Cliff Lampe, Caroline Appert, David A. Shamma, Steven Drucker, Julie Williamson, Koji Yatani |
Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 1-14 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450391573 |
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Publication status | Published - 28 Apr 2022 |
Event | The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, United States Duration: 30 Apr 2022 → 5 May 2022 https://chi2022.acm.org/ |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
ISSN (Print) | 1062-9432 |
Conference
Conference | The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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Abbreviated title | CHI 2022 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | New Orleans |
Period | 30/04/22 → 5/05/22 |
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- privacy
- security
- online social networks
- privacy settings