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Dr Shock MD PhD
The threats of the popular social network Facebook are:
- Identity theft
- Threats to personal safety such as stalking or threatening either online or in real life
- Social risks through participating in minority groups or stigmatized groups
How do people differ in self-disclosure and what kind or how much of information has a high risk for these treats?
In a recent study the researchers developed a tool to score the information disclosed on Facebook. This instrument can determine in Facebook profiles what personal information is disclosed and what is not. Next this scoring tool for personal information was used to explore means for examining identity threat.
For this they divided the personal information on Facebook in 3 categories: personal identity information (gender, birth day, birth year, email, and picture), sensitive personal information (email, employer, job position, status, mini-feed, regular wall, picture, photo albums, self-selected photos, tagged photos, message, poke, send a gift, and friends viewable) and potentially stigmatizing information (religious view, politival views, birth year, sexual orientation, photos, friends viewable, interests, activities, favorite music, …