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Evaluating social media privacy settings for personal and advertising purposes

Another great work concerning privacy issues on social media was a study carried out by Heyman, Wolf, and Pierson. The three were evaluating the two types of privacy that exist on social media platforms. They said that the first type of privacy was the one that was afforded between users (Heyman, Wolf, and Pierson, 2014). The three agreed that social media platforms had put strong enough measures in place to ensure this kind of privacy. The second type of privacy that the three touched on was the privacy between users of social media and third parties. In this, they saw no privacy at all and users could do nothing about it. Jumping to their findings, it can be ...