Research titled “Adolescents' used of Facebook's anti-cybercrime pages and its relationship to managing their digital privacy.

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer, Department of Media and Children's Culture, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Childhood - Ain Shams University

Abstract

There have been many social networking applications and platforms that many have exploited to publish their life clippings in video and photos of their social and family activities using their smartphones. The users of communication sites are creating a virtual life for them that has reached the point of addiction for some in spreading their privacy. The user of these sites reveals by his sole will everything related to his personal life in cyberspace, so the privacy of the user becomes vulnerable to violation, whether by the social networking site itself or by third parties, so the importance of protecting the privacy of this data has emerged. It has established anti-cybercrime pages on Facebook to educate its users on ways to protect against it and provide guidance on practices followed to protect digital privacy.
The study aimed to identify the rate of respondents' use of the study sample for anti-cybercrime pages and the motives for their use of them and revealing the ways they manage their digital privacy after using those pages. The study came as a descriptive based on the media survey curriculum using the questionnaire form applied to a deliberate sample of users of those pages from Egyptian university students.
The results of the study confirmed the respondents' interest in the study sample using the anti-cybercrime pages on Facebook, where their usage rate was fairly high. At the forefront of the pages is combating cybercrime, which respondents prefer to use Mohammed Al-Jundi, an information security expert, and the "Speak/J" page. At the forefront of their motives for their use, came their desire to enhance their ability to protect their electronic privacy as well as avoid gaps that facilitate the violation of their digital privacy.
The study revealed the interest of male and female respondents in social behavior privacy management and spatial privacy management, while females are more interested than males in managing personal data of accounts on social networking sites, as well as adjusting security settings after using Facebook's anti-crime pages.
 

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