Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The study focused on revealing the practices of Egyptian women's management of their privacy on Facebook to identify the nature of the information they disclose about themselves, and the disclosure of their management of the shared privacy between them and family and friends, and the extent of their awareness of the risks of privacy violations and its relationship to their interest in controlling the control of their security settings on the site, This was done by conducting a survey on an available sample of 400 Egyptian women during the period from 1/2/2022 to 23/2/2022.The results of the study concluded that the rate of respondents using Facebook for more than three hours per day increased by (54.8%), and the study concluded that the level of respondents' self-disclosure on Facebook was average (53%) and then low (40%).The study also found a high level of influence of Facebook on the existing social relations of the respondents, and the results of the study revealed that (57.3%) of the respondents in the study sample were not exposed to a situation that violated their privacy on Facebook, compared to (42.8%) who were exposed to a situation that violated their privacy on the site.The results of the study: There are statistically significant differences between the respondents of the study sample in the average awareness of the risks of violating privacy on Facebook according to the variable "marital status", where the respondents from married women came to be more aware of the risks of violating privacy on the site, and the study also found a statistically significant correlation The study sample showed the Egyptian women's self-disclosure on Facebook and their interest in adjusting their security settings on the site.
Source: مجلة البحوث والدراسات الإعلامية
Author: هدیر أحمد محمد طه
Institution: Helwan University
Language: Arabic
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4293074347