Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021 · 94 citations · 27 references
Social SciencesCommunicationInformation SystemsCorporate DisclosureInterpersonal CommunicationInterpersonal RelationshipsData PrivacyPrivacy PolicySocial CapitalSocial MediaSocial Media CommunicationSocial Network AnalysisInteraction EffectsInteraction Effects ModelingPrivacyPrivacy In Close RelationshipsPrivacy In Information SharingPrivacy NormsRelational Social CapitalSocial Media Disclosure
Prior studies link Facebook use to social capital and show that users with high privacy concerns adjust disclosures, yet no empirical work has examined how privacy concerns and disclosure strategies jointly affect social capital. The study investigates how privacy concerns and relationship maintenance strategies relate to social capital outcomes on Facebook. The authors surveyed 230 Facebook users to assess privacy concerns, disclosure behaviors, and social capital. Results show that privacy concerns and behaviors predict disclosure levels but not perceived social capital, while interaction between network composition and privacy feature use predicts social capital outcomes.
In this paper, we explore the relationship between Facebook users’ privacy concerns, relationship maintenance strategies, and social capital outcomes. Previous research has found a positive relationship between various measures of Facebook use and perceptions of social capital, i.e., one’s access to social and information-based resources. Other research has found that social network site users with high privacy concerns modify their disclosures on the site. However, no research to date has empirically tested how privacy concerns and disclosure strategies interact to influence social capital outcomes. To address this gap in the literature, we explored these questions with survey data (N=230). Findings indicate that privacy concerns and behaviors predict disclosures on Facebook, but not perceptions of social capital. In addition, when looking at predictors of social capital, we identify interaction effects between users’ network composition and their use of privacy features.
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