Competent or clueless? Users’ knowledge and misconceptions about their online privacy management

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Highlights:

• We examined students’ (meta-)knowledge about their self-disclosures on Facebook.

• Students knew well what information they had disclosed, but not to which audience.

• Students both overestimated and underestimated the extent of their privacy.

• Students’ struggled to accurately judge their own knowledge regarding their privacy.

摘要

•We examined students’ (meta-)knowledge about their self-disclosures on Facebook.•Students knew well what information they had disclosed, but not to which audience.•Students both overestimated and underestimated the extent of their privacy.•Students’ struggled to accurately judge their own knowledge regarding their privacy.

论文关键词:Self-disclosure,Online Social Networks,Knowledge,Metacognitive accuracy

论文评审过程:Available online 15 October 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.09.033