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“I regretted the minute I pressed share”: A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebook published by Y. Wang, G. Norcie, S. Komanduri, Acquisti,P.G . Leon and L. F . Cranor I n Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2011, 2011 , ACM. Presented by:-
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“I regretted the minute I pressed share”:A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebookpublished byY. Wang, G. Norcie, S. Komanduri, Acquisti,P.G. Leon and L. F. CranorIn Proceedings ofthe Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2011, 2011, ACM. Presented by:- Jagdeep Kaur
Summary:- This paper is an in depth study of regrets facebook users face in United States . It details the common regrets , their causes and methods users undertake to tackle them. It gives us an insight in to the minds of users about how they perceive the information they share on facebook.
Appreciation • It is a very thorough and detailed study of regrets people face while posting on facebook in USA. • The survey data has been manually sorted rather than using software.
Appreciation Continued • Author’s suggestion for Content based reminder for emotional contents. • I recommend the author’s suggestion for customize settings that is also useful to reduce the regrets up to some extent
Criticism • This article is too facebook centric.SNS such as Twitter which have an enormous following has not being covered . • The study is only done in USA and article does not shed any light on culturally influenced regrets of different people around the world.
Question • Do you use any strategy to avoid posting things that you may later regret?