TITLE

Things you wouldn't tell your mother

AUTHOR(S)
George, Alison
PUB. DATE
September 2006
SOURCE
New Scientist;9/16/2006, Vol. 191 Issue 2569, p50
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article discusses the privacy of personal information on social networking sites. The structure of social networking sites is responsible for the change in personal privacy. Users are allowed to peruse a profile created by a particular user. To enable easy communication of users with unknown people, privacy is not offered by most of the social network providers.
ACCESSION #
22566281

Tags: WEB sites;  PERSONAL information management;  PRIVACY;  SOCIAL networks;  SOCIAL groups;  INTERPERSONAL relations

 

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