Perceptions and prevention strategies on Facebook surveillance

What is it about?

With the increasing use of social networks, particularly Facebook, a large amount of data is made available. Such extensive and intensive disclosure of public and private matter aspects of individuals’ lives leads to theoretical and conceptual challenges. To answer some of these challenges, it is intended in this article, through the use of a qualitative methodology, to analyse the perceptions that Facebook users have of the surveillance they are subjected to, as well as the identification of prevention strategies that can be adopted.

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Why is it important?

Our findings show that Facebook users transfer to the platform the complexity and diversity of social relationships in their different offline social contexts.

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